Jewish Standard, October 20, 2017

SETH FARBER FIGHTS AGAINST AN 'ANTI-ZIONIST' RABBINATE page 6
CURATING THE HISTORY OF POLAND'S JEWS pages 8

SHARING SCHOLARS IN RIVER EDGE AND RIDGEWOOD page 10
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No joke. The notification provided no hint as to what
The agencys website recently posted that it is tomfoolery the Mossad had in mind for candidates.
seeking an operations person in an intelligence- Meanwhile, another ad on the website, also for
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Candidates should enjoy teamwork, be able to According to the Hebrew-language news-
deal with stressful situations and uncertainty, have paper Yediot Ahronot, which reported the job
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Noshes My mom is Wonder Woman,
ah, whatever.
According to Gal Gadot, the Israeli who plays Wonder Woman,
thats what her daughter Alma really thinks about her mothers
breakout Hollywood role.
THE SCOREBOARD:
Few home runs,

lots of Nobels
Another World will kvetch that only two 47, and STEPHEN
Series is looming, Jews are in the playoffs. TOBOLOWSKY, 66,
and as I write this, But hear me, oh Israel, as have large supporting
four teams are vying for I give my reply rant. The roles.
the two Series spots. four Jews who won a No- LESLEY ANN
Two Jews are on those bel prize this year raised WARREN, now 71,
four teams. the total number of Jews was the pretty
ALEX BREGMAN, 23, who have won a Nobel actress with a fine
is the Houston Astros since the awards began singing voice who played
third baseman. In a word, in 1901 to 201. These 201 Cinderella in the TV
hes performed since represent 23 percent of version of RODGERS and
being called up in 2016. all winners since 1901 Hammersteins Cinder-
In 2017, he hit .287, with and 37 percent of all ella, which first aired in
19 home runs, 71 RBIs, American winners. This is Alex Bregman Joc Pederson Judah Lewis 1965 and was repeated
and 17 stolen bases. On remarkable in that Jews for many years after.
October 5, in his first are about 0.2 percent Since then, her career
postseason at-bat, he of the worlds popula- has been spotty, with
hit a first-inning home tion and no more than 3 some highlights: an
run against Red Sox ace percent of the American Oscar nomination for
Chris Sale in Game 1 of population. Victor, Victoria (1982)
an American League Since 1871, about and recurring roles on
Division Series. In Game 20,000 men have played Will & Grace as Wills
4, Bregman sparked a in the major leagues. fathers mistress and on
series-clinching rally with About 170 have been Desperate Housewives
another homer off Sale. Jewish. Its really about as Susan Mayers mother.
Bregmans parents are 155 if you exclude half- Her starring role in the
both lawyers and mem- Jews raised in another 1967 film musical, The
bers of New Mexicos faith and one convert- Happiest Millionaire is
oldest synagogue. His fa- away. Michael Rapaport Stephen Tobolowsky Lesley Ann Warren less well known. It was
ther was a good baseball Yes, I know that Jewish the last film supervised
player in his youth. pros are prized among Together, they have pro- hed like to be. He didnt Los Angeles. by Walt Disney and the
JOC PEDERSON, 25, Jews because they are duced just three Nobel name another athlete. An original songs were by RICHARD
a Los Angeles Dodgers rare and because they Prize winners. He replied: ALBERT Showtime series, and ROBERT SHERMAN,
outfielder, had a hor- defy the stereotype that So my advice is: EINSTEIN. White Famous, the brothers who wrote
rible 2017 season and Jews are bookish. But Youre doing something On October 13, premiered on Sunday, the Mary Poppins
was sent to the minors in consider this: Japanese- right, Jews. Dont worry Netflix released October 15. Jay Pharoah songs. The film failed
August. He was recalled Americans and Arme- about the pros so much. The Babysitter, plays a talented young because it was too sac-
on October 1 and made a nian-Americans are com- Even your athlete num- an original horror-come- African-American charine even by Disney
brief appearance in one parable ethnic groups. bers are respectable. dy film. Basic plot: comedian whose star is standards. But the music
playoff game (to date). Like Jews, on average My guess is the late Yogi teenager Cole (JUDAH rising. He has to figure was pretty good.
He made the All-Star they are highly educated Berra would have agreed LEWIS, 16) spies on his out how to maintain his On December 5, Ms.
team in 2015, so theres a and earn good incomes. with me. Berra was a hot babysitter, only to credibility with black Warren will celebrate the
chance he can regain his However, theyve pro- Hall-of-Fame catcher learn that she is part of a people as he crosses 50th anniversary of the
form. Pederson, whose duced far fewer major and a capable coach cult that plans to kill him. over into wider fame movie by performing the
mother is Jewish, is secu- league players than Jews and manager. He was Lewis previously had a referred to by black films songs at two shows
lar. He played for Team in absolute numbers and asked in 1952 if he could big role in the 2015 film entertainers as being at Joes Pub in New York.
Israel in 2013. as a percentage of the be a famous person Demolition. His parents white famous. Proceeds go to charity.
Now I know some Jews American population. other than himself, who are acting teachers in MICHAEL RAPAPORT, N.B.
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Taking on the Israeli rabbinate
Itims Rabbi Seth Farber will describe his legal battles in talks at Teanecks Davar
LARRY YUDELSON to immerse in front of the mikvah attendant
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to sign a release form that asks for personal
abbi Seth Farber didnt set out to information, including the womans phone
replace the system. number and ID number. A week and a half
He wanted to install a more ago, Itim filed a lawsuit to stop this.
user-friendly interface between As Rabbi Farber sees it, he is battling
Israels government rabbinate an official ultra-Orthodox anti-Zionist Judaism for the
body, led by the Ashkenazi and Sephardi chief soul of Israel. The rabbinate is basically an
rabbis, that often is seen as a cold and heart- anti-Zionist entity acting under the veil of
less bureaucracy and the Israeli public. Zionism, he said. Zionism the notion
Thats because the rabbinate also is nec- that Israel is a homeland to the Jewish peo-
essary to Israelis for the lifecycle events for ple in all their diversity is a threat to the
which diaspora Jews turn to their synagogues: charedi way of life.
weddings, funerals, conversions. People think that the moment the cha-
You can see this in the name of the organi- redim came into the institutional rabbinate,
zation the Yeshiva University-trained Ortho- they basically accepted the existence of the
dox rabbi founded 15 years ago: Itim. That State of Israel and its significance, he said.
means occasions. No. Now theyre fighting the battle against
(The occasion for this story: Rabbi Far- Rabbi Seth Farber has led Itim to challenge Israels government rabbinate on Zionism from within.
ber will speak three times this Shabbat at issues of conversion and mikvah privacy. Ironically, however, the rabbinate is
Teanecks Davar. See box.) using modernity against the western world.
But the experience of working with govern- children whose parents promised to raise founder of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, In particular, when it comes to certify-
ment rabbis led Itim to take to Israeli courts, them in Orthodox homes. That meant the and, Rabbi Farber said, it has not been obey- ing who is Jewish, they are using tools and
where it has successfully challenged the rab- children had to be enrolled in Orthodox ing the court ruling. So its back to court. principles that would have shocked any
binate. And most recently, it has set up its schools, the family had to be fully observant Rabbi Farber also has been going to court Orthodox rabbi a century ago. There are a
own beit din, a court of rabbis to oversee by Orthodox rules, and the mother had to to enforce another court victory. This one number of issues that have come up in the
conversions. convert if she wasnt already Jewish. concerned the publicly funded mikvahs, rit- past few months that are very cutting edge,
Last year, Rabbi Farber says proudly, the Not surprisingly, there were few takers. ual baths used by Orthodox women. Some Rabbi Farber said.
beit din converted more than 450 people, pri- Rabbi Farber and the other Orthodox rab- women wanted to use the mikvah without the Among them: The rabbinate is discuss-
marily children. Thats one sixth of the Ortho- bis on his panel insist these conditions arent oversight of the attendants the local religious ing using DNA testing to prove Jewishness.
dox conversions in Israel in 2016. Were well necessary to convert a child who is growing council employs. Theyre setting up an international database.
on the way to competing significantly with up in Israeli society, and going to schools One of the women we represented in Theyre no longer trusting witnesses the
the rabbinate, he said. that teach the Bible and celebrate the Jewish court, who wants to use the mikvah by her- Torahs standard of evidence but instead,
The conversion court started its work a bit holidays as do all of Israels secular public self, is someone who suffered from abuse they only trust documents. So some Com-
more than two years ago. It includes some of schools that serve the Jewish community. and doesnt want to be seen unclothed by munist clerk from the 1930s is considered
the biggest names of Israels Zionist Orthodox Were talking about tens of thousands of anyone, Rabbi Farber said. An attendants trustworthy.
community, including Rabbi Shlomo Riskin kids under the age of bar or bat mitzvah who demand to oversee her immersion would And they are doing away with a basic
of Efrat. are growing up in Israeli society and will ulti- keep her out of the mikvah, he said. principle of halachic jurisprudence by
The beit din focuses on converting chil- mately go to the Israeli army, he said. If the Its not something you can explain to a asking people whom the rabbis certified
dren. These arent 10-year-old Christians and family is intending to bring up the kids as Jew- rabbinate who says if you go without any- as Jewish years ago to prove their Jewish
Muslims who decide that Judaism is their true ish and most are just go get a brit milah one else watching you, youre better off not bona fides once again. Itim is fighting in
spiritual path. No, these are children who are and well go to the mikvah. This is our hala- going at all. They do not have appreciation court on behalf of four families who had
being raised as Hebrew-speaking Israelis but chic modus operandi that allows us to con- of the complexity of todays world, of the been approved as Jewish 25 or more years
were not born Jewish, whether because they vert them. many women hundreds who are being ago but recently received letters warning
were adopted from overseas, or because their Of course, the bureaucrats dont yield kept out of the mikvah because of the stan- they were going to be reclassified as non-
mothers arent Jewish. Thats not uncommon power willingly. On Sunday, before speaking dards of the rabbinate. Jews because a distant relative had failed
among immigrants from the former Soviet with the Jewish Standard, Rabbi Farber filed The rabbinate decided to settle with Itim to prove their Jewishness.
Union, three quarters of whom were inter- the latest motion in an ongoing legal battle and to permit women to immerse alone They were told: The people who checked
married, Rabbi Farber said. against the Interior Ministry. Last year, Israels because they did not want to risk a hear- you out 25 years ago didnt do a good job so
At one point, the government rabbinate Supreme Court ruled that the Interior Minis- ing before Israels Supreme Court, where you have to prove that youre Jewish or your
had a division dedicated to converting chil- try must register people who convert in non- Rabbi Farber would argue for the publics marriage will be declared invalid, Rabbi
dren. It closed not long ago, because the official Orthodox rabbinic courts like Itims as right to use public facilities. But Rabbi Far- Farber said. Were asking for a temporary
Israeli rabbinate would only convert those Jews. The ministry is headed by Aryeh Deri, ber believes that this position also is justi- injunction to not declassify these people as
fied by traditional Jewish law. Jews. Were saying they dont have the juris-
Who: Rabbi Seth Farber, director of Itim Its a question of understanding that the diction to do this. On what evidence are they
Where: Davar, 1500 Sussex Road, Teaneck sources do allow immersing alone under changing the earlier courts ruling?
certain circumstances, and understanding Rabbi Farber fears that if the Supreme
When: Friday night, October 20, after services that start at 5:55, Rabbi Farber will talk
about Itims lawsuit, which enabled women to use a mikvah without attendants, and that there are ways to resolve the core issue, Court doesnt put a stop to this, the practice
he will describe how it feels to have challenged the rabbinate. On Shabbat morning, ensuring that all of womans hair goes under will become common.
October 21, after services that start at 8:15, he will discuss The future of Who is a Jew the water. I can see a situation where this is just
and the rabbinates new reliance on technology. On Shabbat afternoon, after services This new understanding is being the beginning, he said. A day will come
that start at 5:20, he will give an inside look at this summers controversies about the
obstructed in Jerusalem, where the religious where everyone will have to submit to
conversion bill and the Kotel agreement.
council is requiring women who dont want investigations.

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Curator of Polands Jewish museum to speak in Teaneck

Lois Goldrich will describe the creation of the Museum of
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the History of Polish Jews and its importance
or many years, Dr. Barbara Kirsh- today. (See box for details.) I will not only
enblatt-Gimblett chief curator show how we made the exhibition but why
of the core exhibition at the Polin we made it the way we did, to communicate
Museum of the History of Polish in a powerful way the 1,000-year history of
Jews reveled in the stories her father told Polish Jews, she said.
about Poland before the Holocaust. It is hard to pigeonhole Dr. Kirshenblatt-
As she writes in their joint work, They Gimblett, who said that everything con-
Called Me Mayer July (University of Cali- verged to set her on her professional path.
fornia Press, 2007), she began formally My personal history as a child of Polish Jews,
interviewing her father in 1967, and if inter- my relation to my father and the extraordi-
viewing is listening with love, I have been lis- nary memory he had, my training as a folk-
tening with love for four decades. lorist and anthropologist, my knowledge of
At his wifes urging, Mayer Kirshenblatt, Yiddish together with her specialty in
who owned a paint and wallpaper store, Eastern European culture and her interest
taught himself to paint when he was 73 years in museums, specifically in curating, writing,
old. He was good his artwork was exhibited and teaching about them all came together
in several museums. They Called Me Mayer in a special blend that mixed her professional
July is richly illustrated with his work. interest with her academic training.
Mr. Kirshenblatt, who died in 2009, went Dr. Kirshenblatt-Gimblett who is not only
to Toronto from Opatow (Apt, in Yiddish) fluent in Yiddish but speaks German, French,
in 1934. In 1940 he married Doris Shusha- Polish, English, and Hebrew spent almost a
noff, who had arrived in Toronto from Brest- decade in Poland working on the museum.
Litovsk in 1929. Their daughter was born two That, however, was not her sole pursuit. She
years later. is also University Professor Emerita and Pro-
In 1934, Toronto had an active Jewish com- fessor Emerita of Performance Studies at New
munity, Dr. Kirshenblatt-Gimblett said. Can- York University, where she has been affiliated
ada was an enormous country with a much with the Skirball Department of Hebrew and
smaller population [than the United States Judaic Studies.
had]. They didnt have a perfect immigra- Performance studies, she explained,
tion policy, but at the time it was not possible evolved from the graduate department of
to come to the United States, although we drama and embraces all kinds of perfor-
had relatives there. Canada had more open mance. Its an academic field. It doesnt
immigration. train students to be actors, for example. It
Dr. Kirshenblatt-Gimbletts attraction to trains scholars to study all kinds of perfor-
the field of folklore which she describes as mance dance, political rallies, conventions.
her calling began in 1965 at the Univer- It developed in the 1960s. The field, she The Museum of the History of Polish
sity of California, where she moved with her said, explores performance in everyday life, Jews features exhibits that Dr. Barbara
husband, Max Gimblett, in 1964. Here was including the arts of conversation, storytell- Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, inset, helped
a field that valued what was extraordinary ing, and local vernacular culture. Its exactly curate.
in ordinary people, celebrated the oldest like cultural anthropology, which provides
members of a community, and appreciated perfect tools for studying performance. Imagination, Memory (with Jeffrey Shan-
their accumulated wisdom, deep memory, Graduates pursue careers in academia, teach- dler), among others.
and creative capacities late in life, she wrote. ing, writing, and editing, and work in founda- Her work with Polin began in 2002, when visits. It was a most rewarding and incred-
Realizing that an entire generation of Yid- tions and museums. she was invited to Warsaw for a week as a ible time to be in Poland, she added. There
dish folklorists had died in the Holocaust, I Dr. Kirshenblatt-Gimblett also is a writer. consultant to evaluate the master plan for has been a resurgence in the Jewish commu-
decided to dedicate myself to bridging that In addition to They Called Me Mayer July, the exhibition. In 2006, after the museum nity and a renewal of Jewish life, especially in
chasm through my research and teaching. her books include Destination Culture: was established formally and the architec- the big cities of Warsaw and Cracow. While
Dr. Kirshenblatt-Gimblett will visit Tourism, Museums, and Heritage; Image tural competition was completed, she was this really began before the fall of Commu-
Teanecks Congregation Beth Sholom on Before My Eyes: A Photographic History invited back to lead the development of the nism, she said, In the 70s and 80s, it had an
November 3 and 4 as the Fall Rabbi Barry of Jewish Life in Poland, 18641939 (with permanent exhibit. opportunity to blossom.
Schaffer Scholar-in-Residence. She will Lucjan Dobroszycki); The Art of Being It was a great experience. I loved being Dr. Kirshenblatt-Gimblett said that visi-
deliver the Buchman Visual Arts public lec- Jewish in Modern Times (with Jonathan there, she said, noting that she sublet a stu- tors to the museum are experiencing a
ture on November 5; in that presentation, she Karp), and Anne Frank Unbound: Media, dio apartment, which she has kept for future journey of 1,000 years on the site of the
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1,000 years, not six years, not the 20th cen- commissioned for specific research. It was
tury. There was a continuous Jewish presence like producing an enormous film, she said.
in the historical territory of Poland, which While Dr. Kirshenblatt-Gimblett still is
included Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and involved with the museum she remains
neighboring countries. This Jewish commu- is its chief curator and goes to Poland fre-
nity was the largest in the world, she said; in quently, she now is based in New York, pre-
the 18th century, it was home to half of the paring to write a book about the making of
worlds Jews. the exhibit. She said she is really eager to
It was the center of the Ashkenazic Jewish encourage people to come to Poland and
world, creating an extraordinary civil legacy to encounter the history of Jews in Poland.
we are living with to this day, Dr. Kirshen- We believe the museum can be an agent for
blatt-Gimblett said. This is a story that really positive change and transformation, helping
reflects the spectrum of relationships coop- to raise historical awareness and reshape,
eration and competition, conflict as well as enrich, and enlarge the perspective on the
coexistence the history of Polish Jews, not history of Polish Jews.
of anti-Semitism. There was anti-Semitism in Most people today, she said, think of East-
The distinctive exterior of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews. the past, and now, but it doesnt define the ern Europe as the epicenter of genocide.
history of Polish Jews. But, she noted, 70 percent of Jews today
Warsaw Ghetto, the site of pre-war Jewrys Little remains of the pre-war Jewish com- Since its grand opening in October 2014, descended from this territory but were
largest Jewish community in Europe. First, munity in Warsaw. After the uprising, they the museum has welcomed 2 l/2 million cut off from its history because of the Holo-
they encounter a monument to the ghetto completely leveled the Jewish neighborhood visitors. In 2016, it won both the prestigious caust. For those to whom the Holocaust is
heroes and pay their respects there. Then and destroyed 85 percent of the city core, European Museum of the Year Award and the primary concern, learning more about
they come to the museum, an award-winning Dr. Kirshenblatt-Gimblett said. Very little the European Museum Academy Prize. We the Jews earlier history can deepen the
architectural space. You might think of it as a remains in our immediate neighborhood, think thats pretty good, Dr. Kirshenblatt- sense of loss but fulfill the moral obligation to
memorial complex, she said, illustrating how nothing remains. The Noyk Synagogue, in a Gimblett said, pointing out that the curato- remember. The power of experiencing that
the Jews lived. She is very impressed by this different neighborhood, did survive and was rial team responsible for the success of the story in that space is incomparable. No film
stunning architecture, quite minimalist out- restored after the war. There also is the rem- museum included historians, designers, or TV show can approach that impact.
side and dramatic inside. Covering medieval nant of a ghetto wall. academics, art historians, social psycholo- Congregation Beth Sholoms vice presi-
times to the present, a multimedia narrative Still, The history of Polish Jews is more gists, and others, supported by an extraor- dent, Elaine Cohen of Teaneck is coordinat-
and exhibit make up the heart of the educa- than the Holocaust, Dr. Kirshenblatt-Gim- dinary management team. In addition, hun- ing Dr. Kirshenblatt-Gimbletts visit. We have
tional/cultural institution. blett stressed. The most important period is dreds of researchers and specialists were See Museum page 72
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Reform, Conservative shuls share Shabbat in Ridgewood and River Edge
JOANNE PALMER school. In 1994, he moved to Temple Israel
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Center, a huge synagogue it has more than
e Americans find ourselves 800 member units and hes been there
talking a lot about walls ever since. (He also earned his undergradu-
just now. ate degree at Harvard and his doctorate, in
Sometimes it seems as philosophy, at Princeton, so his understand-
if walls separate divisions that used to be ing of academia is not confined to its Jewish
more fluid. In the Jewish world, you can divisions.) For 25 years, until 2007, he was
be charedi, modern Orthodox, Conserva- a member of the Conservative movements
tive, Reconstructionist, Reform, or secu- Committee on Jewish Law and Standards.
lar, and of course each of those worlds are He plans to talk about liberal Judaism; his
subdivided too. You remain in your own views on it come filtered through the lens of Rabbi Paul Jacobson Rabbi David Fine Rabbi Gordon Tucker
world and look over the walls to your right his long and varied experience.
and your left with discomfort, if not actual Rabbi Tuckers move from academia to engaging with all kinds of things, but not was create a community that would really
disdain. congregational life, although not unprec- being intimately engaged with families, reflect and exemplify what I believed then
It doesnt have to be that way; there are edented, was unusual; generally, rabbis and with peoples actual lives. Of course, and still believe that Conservative Judaism
both theoretical and practical reasons to try move in the other direction, from the pul- he added, the committees disengagement is about. This said to me that people come
to tear down those walls. pit to less all-consuming, more theoretical with LGBT lives (and of course that rubric to Conservative synagogues looking for a
Temple Avodat Shalom in River Edge and work in academics, other institutions, or had not been created yet) mirrored the dis- moderate path. There are people who are
Temple Israel and Jewish Community Cen- not infrequently as family therapists. For engagement of the outside world. willing to be challenged and to think theo-
ter in Ridgewood are dismantling the wall me, although being at the seminary really Then, 12 years later, it came up again, logically, to understand that progress and
between them, at least once a year. Rabbi was very fulfilling, and I did have a congre- and this time I was deeply involved, Rabbi progressivism do not mean a rejection of
Selig Salkowitz, the rabbi emeritus at Avo- gation there, of rabbinical students, still Tucker said. I already had many years of tradition, but instead a desire to fulfill tra-
dat Shalom, which is Reform, has estab- I wasnt doing any longitudinal work with experience in the congregation, and I knew dition in the real world.
lished a speaker-in-residence series that families. Students were there for five years, and understood what families were deal- David Fine, the Conservative rabbi
unites his old shul with Temple Israel, a and then for the most part they were gone, ing with. I knew what they were struggling in Ridgewood, and Paul Jacobson, the
Conservative shul that also houses Congre- even if we kept in touch. with, the ways they were affected, and the Reform rabbi in River Edge, may prac-
gation Beth Israel, a Reconstructionist con- I had a strong intuition that there would fears they had for their nephew, their good tice Judaism differently, but they say very
gregation that moved there from Maywood be something more real in my life if I were friends child, their own child, and about similar things when they talk about the
a few years ago. to build a community of my own, rather what the social stigmas and Jewish exclu- program.
sions were doing to them. This program was the gift of Rabbi
That changed my perspective. And it Salkowitz, who has provided the resources
And its not a lowest-common- wasnt just that I thought it wasnt right, so to make it possible for Conservative and
denominator kind of service. lets go in another direction, but it forced
me to think theologically, in ways I hadnt
Reform congregations to spend time learn-
ing about each others Judaism, Rabbi
The Friday night service will be before. I thought, What do I think Gods will Fine said. Its not only sharing a speaker;
the standard Reform service, is on this issue? I didnt believe any more
that Gods will could be captured entirely by
what makes it unique is worshipping
together as well.
and ours will be standard what was in the legal precedents. And its not a lowest-common-denom-
Conservative worship. Rabbi Tucker recalled a sermon that he
had given in 2006, when he was working
inator kind of service, he added. The
Friday night service will be the standard
on the paper that would call for a radi- Reform service, and ours will be standard
This year, at the second annual Selig than just training other people to do it. cal rethinking of the Conservative move- Conservative worship. It gives the oppor-
Salkowitz Distinguished Speaker Series, Thats something that affects teachers in ments approach to the LGBT community. tunity for members of different communi-
the two communities will spend Shabbat other professional schools too, not just rab- I decided it was time to let the congrega- ties to come together, not as guests at a bar
together. In a kind of minuet, they will meet binical schools. If they havent been prac- tion in on where my thinking had come on mitzvah, but the chance to have Kiddush
first for Kabbalat Shabbat services at Avo- titioners themselves, somehow some of it this, he said. It was the Shabbat of parasha together and to learn about each other.
dat Shalom, where Temple Israels Rabbi seems unreal. Acharei Mot thats Leviticus 16:118:30, The two rabbis have worked at making
David Fine will speak; the next morning I wanted to really experience how it which, among other things, details forbid- everything even. Last years speaker was
they will daven together at Temple Israel, feels where all of the theological rubber den sexual acts and I laid out in theologi- Reform; it was Rabbi Gary Zola, execu-
and listen to a sermon by Avodat Shaloms really hits the road, he said So I took that cal terms what I could no longer accept as tive director of the Jacob Rader Marcus
Rabbi Paul Jacobson. After havdalah, begin- plunge. And I never looked back. I consider an image of the God I was willing to wor- Center of the American Jewish Archives at
ning at about 8:30 p.m., and helped along it to be one of the best decisions I have ever ship, and to urge other people to worship Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of
by dessert, the combined congregations will made. and to serve. Religion in Cincinnati. This year, each will
listen to a talk by Gordon Tucker, a promi- Why? Because I could see that progres- And a really nice thing happened. After speak at the others shul. Rabbi Jacobson
nent and influential Conservative rabbi who sivism, in the abstract, is not quite the same you give what you know is a controversial will speak about obligation in Reform Juda-
heads Temple Israel Center in White Plains, as a sense of why things have to progress sermon, you take a deep breath. I did. And ism, and I will speak about choice in Con-
across the Hudson in New Yorks Westches- as seen through the lens of peoples actual one of the more traditionalist members of servative Judaism, Rabbi Fine said. Each,
ter County. lives. the congregation came up to me at Kid- in other words, is tackling a subject that
Rabbi Tucker, who plans to retire next Take, for example, he said, the question dush and said, Rabbi, about your sermon usually is seen as the province of the other.
summer, looks back on a career that has of the status of gay and lesbian Jews. There today At that point you sort of tighten up. I have felt for many years, working
given him both academic and practical was a first go-around on this in the Law And then he said, I think you are going here in Bergen County, that our future is
insight into American Jewish life. For 18 Committee in the early 1990s. I remember to find that you have the congregation in working closer together and combin-
years, beginning in 1976, he worked at the being involved in those debates at the time, behind you. ing our resources, Rabbi Fine said. We
Jewish Theological Seminary; for eight of as a member of the committee. We were And what that meant to me is that I can do that without losing our distinctive
those years he was dean of its rabbinical engaging with texts, engaging with theory, had dreamed of what I could do as a rabbi approaches to Judaism.

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Rabbi Salkowitzs vision is the idea that Reform and
Conservative congregations could have a strong enough
relationship so that members would feel comfortable
enough to feel comfortable in a synagogue that is not
their typical denomination, Rabbi Jacobson said. That
theyd be willing to try and to grow for the benefit of
the Jewish community, and to hear and experience dif-
ference perspectives on Jewish life in a way that would
strengthen the larger Jewish community.
Rabbi Salkowitz now is a member of both synagogues,
and both rabbis are honored by that, they said.
I love both communities, Rabbi Salkowitz said.
They are warm and welcoming, and they are good
solid people.
On Friday nights, he goes to shul at Avodat Torah. I
like to sing the songs of Friday night, and to be part of
the community, he said. I also love Hebrew and the
traditional service. Thats why he goes to shul in Ridge-
wood on Shabbat mornings. I listen to the Hebrew, I
daven in Hebrew, and I am part of that community too.
I am glad to be welcomed in both places.
Although he is rabbi emeritus at Temple Avodat
Shalom, his title is not Latin but Hebrew, HaRav
NaNichbad. It means our honored colleague,
Rabbi Jacobson said.
The title is wonderful, Rabbi Salkowitz said.
The fact that he is so welcome in both synagogues,
and feels at home in both, not only despite their dif-
ferences but because of them, gives Rabbi Salkowitz
great hope. We look at things similarly but differently,
he said. Thats the theme of the weekend. There are
strengths and weaknesses on all sides, and we need to
share them, look at them, and learn from them.
This is the message that has to get out to the broader
community that it is possible to have different inter-
pretations of the same community and be part of the
same people.
Who: Rabbi Gordon Tucker

What: Will talk about progressive Judaism (lower-
case p) through a Conservative (upper-case C)
lens for the Rabbi Selig Salkowitz Distinguished
Speaker Series; there also will be havdalah, a
dessert reception, and a question and answer
session
When: On Saturday, October 28, at 8:30
Where: At Temple Avodat Shalom, 385 Howland
Ave., River Edge
And
Members of Temple Avodat Shalom and Temple
Israel and JCC in Ridgewood 475 Grove St.
will join for services at River Edge on Friday night
at 7:30, when Rabbi David Fine of Ridgewood
will speak, and then in Ridgewood for Shabbat
morning services at 9:30, when Rabbi Paul
Jacobson of River Edge will speak.
Email info@avodatshalom.net or go to
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JFNNJ and Yachad collaborate to offer adults with special needs their own trip to Israel
Abigail Klein Leichman its set to take place next year, from Febru-
ary 19 to 26.
The words Asperger syndrome do not There are 10 slots available for high-func-
define Matthew Nieporent of Westwood. tioning northern New Jersey residents with
This autism spectrum disorder does not social disabilities; applicants will be screened
keep him from working, volunteering, and by Yachad, an organization dedicated to
learning about his Jewish heritage. It most enhancing the opportunities of people with
certainly does not limit his love for Israel. But disabilities to participate in the full spectrum
it does limit his opportunities for group travel of Jewish life.
to the Jewish homeland. An informational session for potential par-
Thanks to Mr. Nieporents suggestion, ticipants and their parents will take place this
the Jewish Federation of Northern New Thursday evening. (See box.)
Jersey has partnered with New Jersey I was on the first Asperger Birthright trip
Yachad to organize the first Israel4All to Israel in 2007 and I was on another trip in
Northern New Jersey Special Needs Trip. 2015 with Israel4All, Mr. Nieporent said. I
Its for people from 25 to 37 years old, and always wanted to go back again because I am
a proud Jew. But a lot of people with Asperg-
ers are locked out of these trips.
What: Information session about the
Israel4All Northern New Jersey Special Mr. Nieporent is facing a double obsta- Matthew Nieporent of Westwood prepares to ride a camel during a previous
Needs Trip in February cle because at 34, he no longer is in the age trip to Israel. His suggestion led to the first Israel4All Special Needs Trip.
Where: Jewish Federation of Northern
bracket for typical group tours like Birthright.
New Jersey, 50 Eisenhower Drive, Last year I saw a trip advertised, but it was and said we need to do this, Jason Shames, took the responsibility for making Mr.
Paramus for people in their 20s, he said. the federations executive vice president Nieporents dream come true. Her
When: Thursday, October 26, 7:30 p.m. While volunteering at a JFNNJ Super and CEO, said. They said, Were sure there research revealed that tours to Israel for
Sunday event earlier this year, Mr. are many others who could benefit from a adults with special needs are infrequent;
For more information or a reservation:
Nieporent mentioned his frustration to trip like this, and if we dont do it no one is moreover, they are run nationally rather
Kim Schwartzman, kimberlys@jfnnj.org
(201) 820-3936; or Chani Herrmann, JFNNJ staffers and they decided to do going to do it. than regionally so it can be difficult for
herrmann@ou.org (201) 833-1349 something about it. Kimberly Schwartzman, the federations people who would like to travel on those
Next thing I knew, my staff came to me manager of outreach and engagement, tours to secure a seat.
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Our correspondent takes a look at local transportation options for elderly parents
Banji Ganchrow Age-Friendly Englewood uses its grant to until 6 p.m. Some of the BCCT buses are
make Englewood a place where seniors used to deliver Meals on Wheels. All of the
There are many things that happen when are able to age at home it works to make vehicles are wheelchair accessible. Mr. Mur-
we age. resources more accessible, sidewalks safer, phy said that the agency receives more than
We dont see as well, hear as well, move as and so on. This mini-conference was called 400 phone calls a day, requesting rides for
quickly. The process is really just a collection Transportation Options, and when I all different types of needs. The budget is $6
of things we thought would never happen to learned about it I got all excited, because I million a year. And yet, It is nowhere near
us. But they do. That is life. thought I was going to be able to learn about enough for what we would ideally like to be
One of the big concerns among the elderly some viable, reasonably priced options for able to do for the community, he said.
is transportation. Thats because many of of my parents. I also hoped to be able to pass What does Mr. Murphy mean? Well, there
them have had to give up driving for safety or the information I was about to learn to mem- are many specific stipulations that fence in
health concerns (and of course some never bers of the Sandwich Generation support this transportation option. You must make
drove in the first place). This topic was of group which I run at Care One in Teaneck. your appointments between 10:30 a.m. and
interest to me because my father, who used In any event, the conference was well-put- 2 p.m., and you have to make your reserva-
to drive me and my siblings and our friends together. That being said, it is an unfortunate tions at least seven to 10 days in advance. So
everywhere not to mention that he was truth that there are only three methods of if you have an emergency doctors appoint-
my mothers personal chauffeur recently transportation available to the local senior ment, which you scheduled today for tomor-
stopped driving. community. None of those three is ideal, but I row, youll have to call a cab. Senior citizens who give up driving
The conversation about giving up driving can only hope that this situation will improve For more information about BCCT, call face limited choices on transporta-
is one that you never want to have with your over time. (201) 368-5955. tion.
parents. It is painful, it is embarrassing (even First, there is Bergen County Community Next, there is the Independent Transporta-
though it shouldnt be) and it just further Transportation. This is the least expensive tion Network. In that service, volunteer driv- it always tries to help.
emphasizes the point that your parents are option; it is donation only, and the suggestion ers provide rides for people who are 60 or ITN rides are not free. Membership for one
getting less and less independent. They are donation is $1 per ride. Tom Murphy is the older, as well as for people who are at least 21 person is $90, and its $100 for two people.
getting old. director of BCCT. This is a government ser- and visually impaired. This service is offered The rides cost $1.50 a mile. However, accord-
I recently went to a conference run by vice and we transport over 1,400 people on a seven days a week, and you can book a ride ing to its director, Mary Lyons Kim, If cost
Age-Friendly Englewood, which is funded daily basis, he said. The service starts pick- 24 hours in advance. If you have an emer- is an issue, we will work with you. The help
by the Henry and Marilyn Taub Foundation. ing riders up at 7 a.m., and it goes through gency, you can call to see if it can help you you can get is called a Roads Scholarship.

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Saba-based tour operator that had coordinated the small
trip Mr. Nieporent joined two years ago, and she got in
touch with the company. They didnt have a tour coming
up for someone of Matthews age so I asked them about
creating an itinerary for us, she said. They are handling
the logistics and coordination.
Chani Herrmann of Teaneck, the director of NJ Yachad,
worked with Ms. Schwartzman to plan the trip. She will
provide experienced staff members who will accompany
the travelers.
Weve been doing inclusive special-needs trips to Israel
for many years, including Birthright trips twice a year,
Ms. Herrmann said. We wanted to give a slightly older
group the opportunity to travel the land and form new
friendships. The goal is for participants to continue meet- Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Riskin,
ing after the trip, perhaps at Yachad social and vocational
programs, she added.
Rabbi David Stav, Mr. Yinon Ahiman,
We run a lot of adult services at Yachad and are always Mr. Fred Ehrman, Mr. David F. Eisner, Dr. Roy Stern
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Be advised that the volunteers drive their own cars, so as President-Elect
there is no wheelchair accessibility. Passengers must be
able to get in and out of the car themselves.
and Rosh HaYeshiva
Ms. Kim said that the agency always is looking for vol-
unteers. Each volunteer is paid $.30 per mile. Drivers are
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the ITN. For more information, call (201) 398-6885.
GoGoGrandparent was the third option presented at
the conference. This company was started by a young Ohr Torah Stone (OTS) is a Modern Orthodox network comprised of 24 educational institutions,
man who wanted to help his grandmother learn how leadership development, outreach initiatives, and social action projects accommodating more than
to use Uber and Lyft. The problem he encountered was 3000 students on 12 campuses all over Israel, and hundreds of graduate rabbis and emissaries serving
that his grandmother didnt have a smartphone, so she Jewish communities across the globe.
couldnt get herself a Lyft or Uber ride.
OTS programs include the Israel Henry Beren Campus Beren Academic Center; Yeshivat Hesder Machanaim, named in memory of Joseph
GoGoGrandparent gives you a phone number to call; and Leila Applebaum; Ethel and Adolph Beren Educators Institute; Joseph and Gwendolyn Straus Rabbinical Seminary; Kollel Torat Yosef;
the person on the other end arranges the callers Uber and Beren-Amiel and Straus-Amiel Emissary Training Institutes; Maarava Program; George Weinstein Institute; Robert M. Beren College; Mo-
Lyft rides. The catch is that there is a 10 percent surcharge nique and Mordecai Katz Integrated Studies Program; Andre Neher Institute; Elaine and Norm Brodsky Darkaynu Programs for Men and
Women; Besen Family Center for Advanced Womens Studies; Midreshet Lindenbaum College for Women (with branches on the Chana
on top of the Uber and Lyft charges. But if cost isnt an and Yaacov Tilles Campus in Jerusalem, in Carmiel and in Lod); Maria and Joel Finkle Overseas Program; Amlat Program; Hadas the
issue, this is a very helpful service for those seniors who Claudia Cohen Torah/Army School; Midrashit; Susi Bradfield Womens Institute of Halakhic Leadership; Monica Dennis Goldberg School
arent smartphone savvy. for Women Advocates; Yad Laisha: The Monica Dennis Goldberg Legal Aid Center and Hotline for Women; Claudia Cohen Women Ed-
ucators Institute; OTS Metivta; Yachad Program for Jewish Identity; Derech Avot Junior High and High School for Boys; Jacob Sapirstein
The phone number to sign up for GoGoGrandparent is Junior High and High School for Boys; Jennie Sapirstein Junior High and High School for Girls; Neveh Channah High School for Girls,
(855) 464-6872 in memory of Anna Ehrman; Neveh Shmuel Yeshiva High School for Boys, in memory of Samuel Pinchas Ehrman; Oriya High School for
The bottom line is that there is no perfect transporta- Girls; Ann Belsky Moranis Program for Arts and Drama; Hertog Center Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation; Dr. Charles and
Rella Feldman Neveh Efrat Retreat Center; OTS Spanish-Language Conversion Institute; Beit Yaacov Leib Institute for Jewish Experience;
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Trachtenberg lecture to focus on Jewish Magic and Magical Judaism
LARRY YUDELSON showed signs of being possessed, even if it seemed to
be the result of a ghost having taken over the person,
The author of one of the five best books on spiri- church officials reframed the event and asserted it was
tual possession will deliver the annual Rabbi Joshua possession by a demon, not a dead human being.
Trachtenberg Memorial Lecture at Temple Emeth in Christian exorcisms therefore were designed to
Teaneck on Friday night. remove demons.
How do we know that Dr. Yossi Chajes Between For the kabbalistic exorcists, however, possession
Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Juda- involved two humans: The live one who was possessed,
ism is of the five best? Thats what a University of and the dead one whose soul had entered the live one.
Texas professor, Dr. Brian P. Levack, wrote in his Theres a kind of compassion that sets in, Dr. Chajes
annotated list, which was published in the Wall Street said. The kabbalist exorcist is in a position to help the
Journal in 2013. soul of the dead person as well as to ameliorate the
It was very flattering to see it there, Dr. Chajes suffering of the living
said. Dr. Chajes, who grew up in Detroit, lives in person.
Israel, where he is a professor at the University of The idea of reincar-
Haifa. This semester he is on sabbatical at University nation became increas-
of Pennsylvanias Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. ing popular during this
If it is surprising that the Wall Street Journal recom- time. Kabbalists used it
mended books on spirit possession Dr. Levack, who to explain certain forms
wrote the column, is an expert on the topic, author of inspiration and rev-
of The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the elation, Dr. Chajes said.
Christian West it would probably have surprised Once it was applied to
those who knew Dr. Chajes as a young day school stu- understand spirit pos-
dent that his career would take such a mystical turn. session, spirit possession
The one thing I thought I knew from my day became evidence that
school education was that Judaism had nothing to the soul doesnt die with
offer spiritually, he said. the death of the body,
But after shopping around in the marketplace and that if youve done
of spirituality at the end of high school and my first something wrong in your
year of college, I finally found my way back to some lifetime, the consequences
sources in the Jewish tradition that made it clear to will go on.
me there was a spiritual history I was not exposed to Dr. Chajes said he found
growing up. I could have been one of the innumer- that the Jews four and five
able Jews who got interested in spirituality and just hundred years ago were
went to the nearest ashram or Hindu temple. Perhaps Dr. Yossi Chajes (above right) is collect- more sophisticated than
because my father told me that we were from a pres- ing and cataloging kabbalistic maps of the we often imagine.
tigious chasidic family, I explored my devotional aspi- divine reality at ilanot.haifa.ac.il. The rabbis and kabbal-
rations with as much knowledge of Jewish traditional, ists who are diagnosing the
spiritual sources as I could find. there is still a phenomenon of exorcism in people who are suffering
Thats how I got into Kabbalah. modern Jewish life we find only rare exam- from afflictions we would
I was never a fundamentalist. My own way of being in ples it is the kabbalists who are still doing probably call forms of
the world was simultaneously religious and modern. That the exorcisms. mental illness today had a
seemed intuitively possible to me but not to most people The topic also was a prism through which whole range of possibilities
around me. I had an intuitive sense that at the beginning I could explore the way mental illness was in their manual for diag-
of the modern period a lot of religious material became imagined in the 16th and 17th centuries. nosis, ranging from spirit
lost and misunderstood. And because both men and women suf- possession, which really
So for his doctoral degree in history, Dr. Chajes set out fered from the syndrome, it meant I would was a kind of problem that
to understand the transition from the Middle Ages to the be shedding light on some very intensive needed ritual treatment,
modern period. He went to Yale and studied under David forms of womens religiosity. to forms of mental illness
Ruderman, whose 1988 book Kabbalah, Magic and Sci- Dr. Chajes discovered that in the 17th cen- that were understood as
ence had made a big impression on him. tury, spirit possession became a tool for reli- organic, not spiritual, in
Looking for a research topic, he came across accounts gious propaganda at a time when religion origin and needed appro-
of spirit possession in 16th century Jewish sources, as well was coming under attack. Sources tried to priate treatment.
as texts with detailed techniques on how to conduct an leverage accounts of spirit possession to con- Pre-modern Judaism
exorcism. It was a topic at the crossroads of Kabbalah, vince skeptics that God exists and that the preserves the possibilities
magic, and science, because it was the kabbalists who soul is eternal, he said. for a more expansive way
were in charge of carrying out exorcisms in the Jewish While the Jewish wave of spirit possession coincided of being Jewish than we would ever know if we were to
community. Even today, Dr. Chajes said, to the extant with a similar upsurge in spirit possession in the Christian just listen to what todays rabbis say is right and possible,
world (as well as unrelated but coincidental outbreaks of he said.
What: Rabbi Joshua Trachtenberg Memorial Lecture charges of witchcraft) the two religions disagreed on what Dr. Chajes has moved on from madness and possession
Where: Temple Emeth, 1666 Windsor Road, Teaneck kind of spirit was possessing peoples. to explore kabbalistic maps of the universe diagram-
The Jewish answer that was popular in the 16th century matic representations of kabbalistic cosmology.
When: 7:30 p.m., Friday, October 20
that it was a dybbuk, the spirit of a dead person who Its the first truly systematic study of an entire genre of
Who: Dr. Yossi Chajes, who will speak on Jewish Magic taken over the body of the living person didnt fit Catho- Jewish creativity, he said.
and Magical Judaism. lic theology. So when Christians identified someone who Until now, studies of Kabbalah ignored the diagrams,

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And art historians didnt study them because they
werent seen as authentic an art form as illuminated
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manuscripts.
Using a grant from the Israel Science Foundation,
Dr. Chajes has been cataloging and studying hundreds
of these kabbalistic diagrams. They range from dia-
grams in kabbalistic manuscripts that accompany dis-
cussions of the nature and structure of the cosmos, to
enormous parchment scrolls that are 2 or 3 feet wide
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That books of kabbalah included diagrams makes
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visuals. People accustomed to infographics now study
Kabbalah and expect visualizations to accompany the
discussions.
Dr. Chajes is honored to be giving the Trachtenberg
lecture, he said. Rabbi Dr. Joshua Tractenbergs book,
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One big
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The Jewish Home Family held its
annual gala on Sunday, October
15, honoring the medic al
director of the Jewish Home at
Rockleigh, Dr. Harvey R. Gross,
and featuring special guest
Rabbi David Wolpe of the Sinai
Temple in Los Angeles, who
headed Newsweeks list of top
rabbis in 2012.
Robert Bardach, assistant vice president of the
Rabbi David Wolpe was the Jewish Home Family, left, and Harold Cohn, a
evenings keynote speaker. Honoree Dr. Harvey Gross and his wife, Beth. resident of the Jewish Home at Rockleigh.
Susan Gralla and her husband, Dennis Gralla, a member of the board of the Jewish The president of the Jewish Home Assisted Living, Peter Martin; Eli Ungar,
Home at Rockleigh, with Judy and Ary Freilich, Jewish Home Assisted Living and chairman Jewish Home Family; Gayle Gerstein, president of the Jewish Home
Jewish Home Family board members, and Carol Silver Elliott. at Rockleigh; Carol Silver Elliott, president and CEO of the Jewish Home
Family, and the Jewish Home Foundations president, Jon Furer.
Jill Tekel and her husband, Harvey, flank Harveys father, Lou Tekel, who
sits on the board of the Jewish Home at Rockleigh. Guests enjoy dancing a hora.

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Athletes, volunteers enjoy Schechter students visit ecology camp

Guttenberg Special Games Sixth- and seventh-
graders from the
Academies at
Gerrard Berman Day
School in Oakland
visited TEVA, the
Jewish environmental
camp at Camp
Isabella Freedman in
Falls Village, Conn.
They learned about
food sustainability
Athletes participate in the Guttenberg
and its impact on the
Special Games COURTESY JCCOTP
environment.
Last month, nearly 125 differently abled barbecue and music by DJ Randi Rae.
athletes and more than 100 volunteers This year, the field day featured new
came to the annual Special Games, pre- access mats that provide improved wheel-
sented by the Chuck Guttenberg Center chair and walker access on the outdoor
for the Physically Challenged at the Kaplen field and allow more accessibility and
JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly. inclusion.
The inclusive field day offered 14 events, Special Games is held by the JCC Gut-
including golf putt, basketball, softball tenberg Center for Special Services and Cantor Ellen
throw, Frisbee toss, soccer kick and bowl- is supported through the Chuck Gutten- Tilem, Dora Geld
ing, and new events like lacrosse throw, berg Center for the Physically Challenged, Friedman, and
volleyball, track, and beach volleyball. All established by Adele and Bill Guttenberg Rabbi Steven
athletes, who wore their Special Games in loving memory of their son Chuck. For Sirbu join
T-shirts, received ribbons for every event information, call Shelley Levy at (201) 408- students at the
they participated in. The day ended with a 1489 or email slevy@jccotp.org consecration
ceremony.
BARBARA BALKIN
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey
ISRAEL FILM FESTIVAL Temple Emeth recognizes students

Teanecks Temple Emeth honored students entering its religious school in a consecra-
COMING TO THEATERS
tion ceremony as part of its Sukkot service on October 4. School principal Dora Geld
Friedman read a story and students received a certificate and a miniature Torah. The
congregants finished the service in the shuls sukkah.
NEAR YOU Shul names two honorees

Congregation Beth Aaron hon-
November 2 - 19, 2017 ored Josh Klavan as Chatan Bere-
COURTESY CONGREGATION BETH AARON

ishit and Yakov Eizik as Kol ha-
Nearim on Simchat Torah. Rabbi
For ticket and film information, visit Lawrence Rothwachs, the shuls
jfnnj.org/filmfestival spiritual leader, was honored as

Chatan Torah for the work he
continues to do on behalf of the
congregation.
Josh Klavan is the shuls vice
president of finance and has been
its treasurer and a member of its Josh Klavan Yakov Eizik
board. Together with his wife,
Esther, and several other shul members, Holy Day seating, and is active with
he founded Shearit HaPlate of Bergen the shuls Chevra Kadisha. He has been
County, Inc., in 2006; he has been the a member of the Teaneck Volunteer
organizations president. Esther is the Ambulance Corps for 34 years.
director of SINAIs Karasick Shalem High Toby is working with Ellen Friedman,
School at the Torah Academy of Bergen the designer of the shuls new Kol ha-
County. The Klavans have four children. Nearim chuppah, and using her embroi-
Yakov Eizik and his wife, Toby, have dery skills to add the names of children
Jewish Federation been members of Congregation Beth and grandchildren to the chuppah, which
OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY Aaron for 41 years. Yakov has served enhances Simchat Torah celebrations.
on many committees, including house, The Eiziks have three children and four
JoyceG@jfnnj.org | 201-820-3907 kitchen, and security, helps with High grandchildren.

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PHOTO COURTESY HOLY NAME MEDICAL CENTER

The outdoors moves indoors
Holy Name Med Center marks Sukkot The annual family sukkah lunch at the JCC of Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah was
Holy Name Medical Center constructed president and CEO of Holy Name. This held indoors on a rainy day during chol hamoed Sukkot. Cantor Sam Weiss and teacher
a sukkah and gathered with staff, physi- holiday not only gives us the opportunity Stu Lehrer lunched with students.
cians, community leaders, and visitors to make patients, families, and employ-
in observance of Sukkot. ees feel more at home, it also gives us the
As a culturally sensitive organization, chance to unplug, connect, and reflect
it is important to honor the cultural and with one another. This marked the sev-
spiritual needs of every person who enth year that Holy Name, the first hos-
walks into our medical center and trusts pital in North Jersey to do so, put up a
us with their care, said Michael Maron, sukkah.
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d
MICHAEL LAVES
e
JCT crew gathers to decorate

Children and adults joined together to decorate the sukkah at the Jewish Center of Teaneck.
COURTESY CONGREGATION BETH AARON
COURTESY YU
YU volunteers help build sukkot

As a new chessed initiative, Yeshiva University students went to Teaneck, Bergenfield,
and New Milford to help those particularly the elderly and infirm who needed
assistance in building to build sukkot. The gesture was especially meaningful to the
students because they are studying Mesechet Sukkot this year.
Chabad sponsors clothing drive

VALLEY CHABAD
The Chabad Center of Passaic County is Ratzer Road in Wayne. CUMAC is a non-
collecting gently used winter gear, look- profit organization dedicated to feeding
ing particularly for coats, hats, scarves, people and changing lives in Paterson,
and mittens, for CUMAC. The drive will
end on November 10. Bring donations to
Passaic County, and northern New Jer-
sey. For more information, call Chani at
Sukkah building in Woodcliff Lake
the lower lever of the Chabad Center, 194 (973) 694-6274. Community members of all ages had pizza for lunch as they gathered to construct Valley
Chabads sukkah in Woodcliff Lake on October 1.

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Sharing
the dream of
peace
Local women
talk about
Women Wage
Peace in Israel
JOANNE PALMER
T
he idea of taking politics out of
the search for peace maybe isnt
so intuitive.
War is what happens when
politics fails, it seems, so peace, as wars
opposite, must be the outcome of a suc-
cessful political process.
If only it were that simple!
There is now a movement in Israel,
Women Wage Peace, that brings together
women from across the religious/secular
divide, the left/right split, and even the
Jewish/Muslim barrier. Yes, it sounds like The two-week walk took thousands
its in airy-fairy, pie-in-the-sky, yeah-right of women across Israel. Many wore
territory and maybe it is but it brought turquoise scarves, the marchs
many thousands of activists mainly signature look.
women but men as well together for a
two-week walk through Israel, in what is
likely to be an annual tradition, until the MIriam Brenner, left, and Miriam Baker, friends for decades, walked together.
need for it is gone.
The walk culminated in Jerusalem on
October 8. relationship therapists who studied at the passionate about peace, and about wom- I have been through all the wars in
Women Wage Peace is committed to medical center psychology departments ens ability to bring about peace, Ms. Israel, she said. I was in the army dur-
bringing people together to achieve peace; human sexuality program. They met in Baker said. ing the Six-Day War. It was absolutely hor-
its members forswear any politics, includ- 1985, when Ms. Brenner, then 38, her hus- Ms. Brenner was born in Capetown, rible. Every time you think this is the last
ing their own, because the goal of peace is band, and their four young children came South Africa. Her parents came to Israel one. And you dont want your children to
far more important than anything else. Its to New York for the Cornell Weill program. in 1949, when I was a year old and so go into the army, and then you dont want
a question of survival, they say. Ms. Baker, then 30, had just gotten mar- was the state, she said. My parents were your grandchildren to go into the army.
Two of the women who walked this year ried and had not yet had children. Their Zionist leaders, and I grew up with Zionist Both my sons were in Lebanon and in
are longtime friends, one American, one interest in each other was piqued by the ideals. I feel that what I am doing now is Gaza, she continued. In 2014, when the
Israeli, who spend time together every similarities in their names, their biogra- implementing the values I grew up with. war broke out in Gaza, it was just like the
year. Recently, the two talked about their phies, and their shared interests. She has 14 grandchildren, and in addi- last straw. I felt that I was not willing to just
commitment to the ideas behind Women Now, more than 30 years later, both are tion to my professional activities, I spend sit at home and let men have wars. That
Wage Peace. well known in their fields, their friend- my time going from one kid to another to was enough.
Miriam Baker lives in Fort Lee and Mir- ship has grown as their familiarity with be with my grandchildren. One of her In 2014, the first time a siren warning of
iam Brenner lives in Ganei Tikvah, near every aspect of each others families has children and four of her grandchildren live a possible incoming missile sounded, I
Bar Ilan University. The women trained evolved, and we still are both practicing in Philadelphia; the rest are in Israel. was with one of my grandsons in the car,
together at what was then called Cornell clinicians, but we have raised our fami- It is her grandchildren who made Ms. in the Tel Aviv area, she said. We had to
Weill Medical Center; both are sex and lies and are becoming more and more Brenner a peace activist. stop the car and lie down on the floor. He

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was 9 at the time. It was during the school summer holi-

day, and I had five grandchildren sleeping at my place.
A few times we had to get up in the middle of the night
and go to the safe room.
Those of course are experiences most Israelis share
and most of us Americans cannot imagine but this
one Israeli had reached her breaking point. I swore to
myself that my main occupation, no matter how much
PHOTOS COURTESY WOMEN WAGE PEACE
I work, is going to be to see how we can make peace.

She heard about Women Wage Peace, which started
at around that time, and now it is the center of my
life, she said.
When Miriam Brenner became active in Women
Wage Peace, Miriam Baker decided she had to join
her friend in that work. It is unbearable to me that
my friend, who I love, and whose children I love, can
be in such danger, she said. There were times when
she would call me with a gas mask on, and my heart

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would be broken.
I never forgot how lucky I was that my
children were not going to war, she contin-
ued. My children were not in that kind of
danger. Her children grew up in Tenafly and
went to school there.
So I flew in. My own children are a little
younger than Miriams, but they are just
about ready to leave the nest.
And now the United States also needs
powerful women, because of what is going
on in our government. So all of this was a
song that was singing to me.
The point of Women Wage Peace is that
it is not political. Its goal is to bring people
together not only women, but everyone
and to somehow compel them to understand
that peace matters.
It is not a protest, Ms. Baker said. It is a
sensibility. We finally have to understand that
there cannot be violence, that war is not a
solution, that war doesnt ever bring results.
Women and men, Jews and

Muslims, walked through Tel Aviv
and ended in Jerusalem.
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It never has. It never does. Parliament, and to start working

There cant be an agenda of inside the Knesset, she said.
silencing people. One of the MKs who has chosen
Ms. Brenner said that Women Wage to work with Women Wage Peace
Peace is a grassroots organization, is Yehuda Glick, who is a member
based on a model developed in Libe- of Likud. Hes right-wing, a vocal
ria. Leymah Roberta Gbowee, the advocate for saying that Jews
woman who developed the model, should have the right to go on the
won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for Temple Mount in Jerusalem, and
her work, which ended a civil war in most famous for having been shot
her country. Her work, against huge and nearly killed by an Arab for
odds, frequently flying in the face that stance.
of what cynics would call common Arutz Sheva quoted Rabbi
sense, is an inspiration to Women Glick, who has faced controversy
Wage Peace, and Ms. Gbowee has for his friendship with Women
come to Israel to show solidarity. Wage Peace, as saying:
Women Wage Peace works to break Anyone who meets with
down barriers. It is basically an orga- Women Make Peace cannot help
nization without hierarchies, which but be impressed by the positive
means that we have a lot of different and non-inflammatory discourse
teams, with a lot of people who are that they hold at a time when
leading the teams, Ms. Brenner said. Jewish and Muslim women here are framed by an iconic turquoise scarf. there is no terror wave on the
The country is broken into 50 geo- streets. They turn the term peace
graphic regions. We have 30,000 women who are active Recently Women Wage Peace held meetings in the south into something tangible. We talk a lot about peace. We
now, and we are drawing more and more of them, from all of Israel. They worked with Bedouin Israelis, and also with pray for peace, which is wonderful. But we cannot under-
across Israel. Some of them are Arab, Ms. Brenner said, the mayor of Dimona, Beni Biton, who is right-wing. We estimate the need to change the discourse.
and the Jewish women come from a wide range of cultural have a woman from Dimona, Daniella Hermon, who orga- Similarly, the Times of Israel quoted Michal Froman, a
and religious backgrounds. nized it, she said. settler who was stabbed by a Palestinian during her fifth
We have had religious women, women who are set- Ms. Brenners team works with Knesset members. pregnancy. (Both mother and baby survived; the baby was
tlers, and we also have men who join us, she continued. Our goal is to make contact with all the members of not harmed at all and the mother recovered fully.)
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We must come together to be able to Yes, it is a hard sell in some quarters,

reach the peace we all want, Ms. Froman Ms. Berrie said. There are many cynics in
was quoted as saying. Israel. We are so jaded, and Israelis even
Thats exactly the two Miriams point.
We dont say what the solution should
be, Ms. Baker said. We dont say what
kind of agreement the Palestinians and the
Israelis should come to. What we are say- They are signing
ing is that working toward an agreement
is the most important thing, and that it
people up on
should be on the agenda all the time. street corners,
That hasnt happened, but we are not
going to let it go. We are going to make sure
in kibbutzim,
that it is always on the agenda. in moshavs.
Women Wage Peace has grown virally,
and it is now the biggest grassroots move- more so, she continued. Peace often is a
ment in Israel, Angelica Berrie of Engle- bad word there. If you believe in it, you are
wood said. Ms. Berrie is the president of a sucker. But these women just keep going
the Russell Berrie Foundation, and she at it. They say that they will not accept any- In a video that has gone viral, Yael Deckelbaum sings Prayer of the Mothers.
supports Women Wage Peace. They are thing less than a peace agreement.
signing people up on street corners, in She stresses the importance of the stop asking for it until it happened. What happened in Liberia is inspiring,
kibbutzim, in moshavs. They are Knesset accomplishments of Liberias Nobel lau- Although the Israeli-Palestinian impasse Ms. Berrie said.
members, judges, right-wing people, left- reate, Ms. Gbowee, and of the inspiration seems to the Jewish community to be the She talked about Yael Deckelbaum, a
wing people, charedi women who believe she provides. There are so many people most intractable one on the face of the singer whose video, Prayer of the Mothers,
the messiah is coming. who dont know who she is, but she won earth, other conflicts are equally hard, if has gone viral. The song, in Hebrew and
The thing that makes this movement the peace prize for a peace agreement that far less well publicized outside their imme- Arabic, is a simple prayer for peace. The
unique is that no matter where they are, was not a political compromise, she said. diate area. The conflict in Liberia did not video, beautifully shot, filmed in Israels
they all understand that peace has to It was a peace agreement. They had no seem as if it would end in anything other austerely stunning hills, featuring Jewish
come, and that they are not going to let conditions. They just asked for a peace than cataclysm but it did. and Muslim women in flowing white, is
politics get in the way. agreement to be signed, and they did not There is hope for Israel. deeply moving.
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Yael Deckelbaum is like the Joan Baez of listen to each others narratives. My main of beauty and hope. Among their stories women, and the man who was driving
Israel, Ms. Berrie said. The song has had work is teaching people not to avoid issues, was the time when they were in the desert, them. I bang on the door and say, Please
more than four million hits so far, and it has not to use revenge as a way to handle your in a group of 10,000 people, at a concert. can you just give us a ride to our car. They
brought others in from around the world. It problems, to respect your differences. It was very hot it was the desert, after all said they were going to Ramallah, and at
seems particularly popular in Europe She would like Women Wage War to and there were many buses lined up. It first they said, No, we cant give you a
Women invited Yael to sing in Berlin, become established in the United States. would take hours to get all those fabulous ride. We are full.
and schoolchildren sang it in Germany. We dont necessarily live with the threat I put my hand up and said please
She appeared in a march in Zurich, and of war, but there is violence in relation- please please, and he said, Get on board,
one in Geneva, and in various places ships, and the threat of violence, she said. so Miriam and I jumped on. The man
around the world, Ms. Berrie said. The
song has taken the message to countries
The two Miriams talk about the march.
We started in Sderot, and then we went
We teach people spoke English but the women did not, and
neither Miriam spoke Arabic.
where it resonated. They didnt necessar- from place to place in the south for a week, not to silence There was just nonverbal communi-
ily know anything about Israel.
They just shared the dream of peace.
Ms. Baker said. By the Dead Sea, there was
something called the Tent of Hagar and
each other. cation, but we laughed, we used hand
motions, we talked with our eyes, Ms.
Ms. Baker and Ms. Brenner both plan Sarah. Hagar is the mother of the patriarch We teach them Baker said. We showed pictures of our-
to continue their work with Women Wage
Peace. Ms. Brenner, who concentrates on
Abrahams older son, Ishmael, progenitor
of the Arab nations, the Torah tells us, and
to listen to each selves on our phones. By the time we were
dropped off, we were blowing kisses to
the Knesset, is working with a commit- Sarah is the mother of Isaac, from whom others narratives. each other. I gave my turquoise scarf to
tee that plans to have women, dressed in the Jews are descended. In the Bible, in one of the women, because I could see that
white shirts and turquoise scarves, Women Genesis, Sarah convinces her husband to women out of there, Ms. Baker said. They she really liked it.
Wage Peaces iconic style, lobbying there exile Hagar; he leaves his concubine and decided that instead of waiting for a bus And we spoke not a word in the same
every Monday to remind them that hav- his son to die, but God saves them. to shuttle them to the parking lot where language.
ing a peace agreement that is accepted by We wanted to make peace between they had left Ms. Brenners car, they would It was an image oddly reminiscent of
both sides has to be on the agenda all the Hagar and Sarah, Ms. Brenner said. In walk the two miles. Sarah and Hagars tent. In the original
time, she said. the Dead Sea, we follow Abrahams path. It was a mistake. story, Sarah casts Hagar out. In this story,
Ms. Baker compares the work Women We told the story of everything that hap- I see that Miriam looks so tired, Ms. Hagars descendants bring Sarahs descen-
Wage Peace does on a macro level to her pened. We dont want to stay in the past. Baker said. The heat is bearing down on dants in. They laugh, they show pictures,
own micro-level work with couples and We want to look to the future for our chil- us. I realize that I have to find us a ride. and then they part joyously.
families. We teach people not to silence dren and grandchildren in Israel. I see a minivan, and I run to it, and I It is a good way forward, the Miriams
each other, she said. We teach them to They walked north, seeing a great deal bang on the door. It is full of beautiful Arab agree.
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What happens now with the Iran deal?

RON KAMPEAS he said he would do that in a White
House speech last Friday Congress has
WASHINGTON President Donald Trump 60 days to re-impose sanctions. But the
has said what he wants Congress to do with White House is not asking Congress to re-
the Iran nuclear deal, which he has called impose the sanctions. Instead, the presi-
the worst in the world: Make it better. dent wants new legislation, through an
How does that happen? Is it possible to amended INARA or through a new law,
fix the deal without breaking it? that would effectively reshape the deal,
Heres a breakdown of what Trump known formally as the Joint Comprehen-
wants, what might happen, and where the sive Plan of Action.
Jewish organizations, many of whom were Trump wants the new laws to override
fierce opponents of the original deal, are provisions of the deal, including the so-
on the issue. called sunset clauses that lift restrictions
and allow Iran to enrich fissile material
What Trump wants beginning within the next decade. Trump
The 2015 deal negotiated by the Obama wants a law that would keep U.S. sanctions
administration, the European Union, Brit- in place should Iran remove the restric-
ain, Germany, France, Russia, and China tions, even though the sunset clauses
with Iran traded sanctions relief for a roll- allow it to do so.
back of Irans nuclear program. Trump can In another instance, the deal includes a
leave the deal whenever he wants: All he At the White House, President Donald Trump talks about his administrations complex and relatively lengthy procedure
has to do is stop waiving that is, restore Iran strategy on October 13. DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES for International Atomic Energy Agency
the sanctions removed by the deal. nuclear inspectors to visit sites not cov-
Top security advisers have talked Trump have counseled him to decertify Iranian of overseeing the deal: the Iran Nuclear ered by the deal. Trump wants a law that
out of that option, saying it could dam- compliance with the agreement under a Agreement Review Act, or INARA. would re-impose sanctions unless Iran
age Americas reputation. Instead, they 2015 law passed by Congress as a means Under the act, once Trump decertifies agrees to simplify the procedure.
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Trump said as he outlined the policy apply to U.S. sanctions; bolster IAEA veri- body are likely to get on board. Minority malign activities, including missile testing
that if hes not happy with the outcome, fication powers; and limit Irans advanced Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said as and military adventurism.
he would pull out of the deal. centrifuge program. much, referring to statements by Trumps We stand ready to take further appro-
In the event we are not able to reach top military advisers, who oppose killing priate measures to address these issues
a solution working with Congress and our the deal despite its flaws. in close cooperation with the U.S. and all
allies, then the agreement will be termi- The @SenateDems agree with [Secre- relevant partners, the statement from
nated, he said. It is under continuous tary of Defense James] Mattis and [chair- the governments of Britain, Germany, and
review, and our participation can be can- I urge our allies man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ] General France said.
celed by me, as president, at any time. [ Joseph] Dunford, Schumer said on In his remarks, Trump suggested he was
to join us in Twitter after Trump announced his deci- open to that route.
What happens next, taking strong sion. We wont allow the Iran deal to be I urge our allies to join us in taking
congressional version undone. strong actions to curb Irans continued
Two prominent Republicans in the U.S. actions to curb dangerous and destabilizing behavior,
Senate, Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Bob Irans continued What happens next, including thorough sanctions outside the
Corker of Tennessee, are shaping legisla- international version Iran Deal that target the regimes ballistic
tion according to Trumps specifications. dangerous and The likelier way forward would involve missile program, in support for terrorism,
The legislation still is being drafted, but destabilizing not Congress but U.S. allies who signed on and all of its destructive activities, of which
last week Corker released a summary of to the deal. This would involve increasing there are many, he said.
the proposal. behavior. pressure on Iran outside the context of the Trump then could legitimately claim
The legislation automatically re- nuclear deal, which Trump could claim as that the international community was
imposes sanctions if Irans nuclear pro- an improvement. focused more holistically on Irans over-
gram violates certain restrictions, the It is unlikely that the bill will be enacted The three European governments that all bad behavior and not narrowly on the
summary said. These restrictions remain as it stands now. Advancing the legislation signed the deal released a statement say- nuclear program.
in force indefinitely, effectively ridding requires 60 backers in the Senate, but none ing they opposed rupturing the pact but Robert Satloff, the director of the Wash-
the JCPOA of its sunset provisions as they of the 48 Democrats in the 100-member were eager to squeeze Iran for its other ington Institute for Near East Policy, said
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in a conference call on Monday orga- David Harris, the American Jewish
nized by the Jewish Federations of North Committees executive director, said in a
America and the Jewish Council for Pub- post on the groups site that it isnt useful
lic Affairs that this could offer a win-win: to relitigate earlier political battles over
Keeping the deal in place for those who the deal.
favor doing so while allowing Trump the At this point in time, whatever ear-
opportunity to say it was improved. lier views were, it is absolutely essential
The main focus is trying to get our that the Administration, Congress, and
allies to get together with the United our key allies in Europe, the Middle East,
States and reach improvements, and and Asia work as collaboratively as pos-
Photo Credit: Assi Dvilanski
then the president will say good sible on the Iran threat, Harris said.
enough, he said.
Please join us at the
Where is the
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pro-Israel camp?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan- The major
yahu is enthusiastic about Trumps pro-
posal, especially the prospect of killing
groups urged
collaboration by
NEW YORK GALA
the deal outright should the Iranians
not play ball. Among international lead-
ers, only the Saudis share Netanyahus
Congress, the
enthusiasm. administration,
HONORING I believe that any responsible gov-
ernment, and whoever seeks to pro-
and U.S. allies
mote peace and security in the world, to address aws
needs to take advantage of the oppor-
tunity that President Trumps deci-
while keeping
sion has created in order to improve the deal intact.
the agreement or abrogate it and, of
course, stop Irans aggression, the Jonathan Greenblatt, the Anti-Defa-
Israeli leader said in remarks opening mation Leagues national director, said
his weekly Cabinet meeting. that rupturing the agreement now could
ELIE Y. & ESTHER KATZ The centrist pro-Israel community is

less sanguine. Like Schumer and other
destabilize the region. His group, like the
AJC, opposed the deal.
2017 Young Professional Leadership Award Recipients Democrats who opposed the original A reimposition of sanctions and an
deal, there is a sense among pro-Israel unraveling of the deal would not only
groups that breaching the deal would have a negative impact on Americas
damage Americas ability to affect Ira- international leadership and foreign
nian behavior by reducing U.S. credibil- affairs priorities, but could bring imme-
ity among allies. diate threats from Iran, Greenblatt
Special greetings by Instead, the major groups urged col- wrote on Medium. But there is an
AMBASSADOR DANI DAYAN

laboration by Congress, the adminis- opportunity now to reset the terms of
tration, and U.S. allies to address flaws this debate.
Consul General of Israel while keeping the deal intact. J Street, the liberal Jewish Middle East
The American Israel Public Affairs policy group, urged Congress to reject
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Committee welcomed Trumps speech, any attempt to amend the deal.
but emphasized that he was not propos- Congress does not need to be an
ing ending the deal, at least for now. accomplice in Trumps plan to unravel
6:30 PM The president made clear his view

of the deficiencies in the JCPOA, but
the Iran deal, the group said in a state-
ment. They can stand up against a
he also indicated that the United States course of action that could lead to an
Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers is not withdrawing from the accord at unconstrained Iranian nuclear program
23rd Street and West Side Highway this time, AIPAC said in a statement. or another war in the Middle East.
Instead, he called upon Congress and On the right, the Zionist Organization
Business attire. Dietary laws observed. our allies to work together to address of America, in a post by its president,
the deals problematic sunset clauses, Morton Klein, before Trumps speech,
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What Palestinian reconciliation means for Israel

ANDREW TOBIN move toward unity between the feuding Palestinian factions and Samaria [the West Bank] or from Gaza, if the PA
Fatah and Hamas, calling it a threat to Israel and a setback indeed takes responsibility for its territory, his office
JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to peace. But he quietly indicated that Israel could accept said in a statement on Thursday, after the deal was
has taken a wait-and-see approach to last weeks Palestinian reconciliation if Hamas reformed. signed. Israel will monitor developments on the
reconciliation deal. Israel insists that the PA not allow any base whatso- ground and act according.
Netanyahu spoke out publicly and loudly against the ever for Hamas terrorist actions from PA areas in Judea Netanyahu reacted very differently to the failed
2014 reconciliation attempt by Fatah, which governs
the West Bank, and Hamas, the terrorist group that
runs Gaza. At the time, Israel froze negotiations and
severed diplomatic relations with the Palestinian
h a n k y o u ! Authority.
Circumstances have since changed.
Israel has persistent fears about the costs of Palestin-
Tto our 35 synagogue communities for welcoming

over 300 new participants to this years High Holiday
ian reconciliation. But the prime ministers restrained
response, despite calls from right-wing ministers for
more aggressive measures, reflects the potential ben-
efits of letting the attempt play out, at least for now.
On Thursday, Fatah and Hamas signed a reconcilia-
tion deal in Cairo that reportedly will see the Palestin-
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services through Jewish Federations EZ Key program.
Barnert Temple-Congregation Bnai Reconstructionist Congregation Beth

Jeshurun, Franklin Lakes Israel, Ridgewood Israel will monitor
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Congregation Beth Sholom, Teaneck Temple Beth-El, Jersey City the coming months. Some 3,000 Palestinian security
Congregation Bnai Israel, Emerson Temple Beth El of Northern Valley, officers are to join the Gaza police force. Elections are
to be held for a national unity government.
Congregation Bnai Jacob, Jersey City Closter But Netanyahu has made clear that Israel maintains
Congregation Keter Torah, Teaneck Temple Beth Or, Township of its longstanding position against Hamas rejoining the
Washington Palestinian Authority, from which it broke when it vio-
Congregation Kol HaNeshamah, lently seized control of Gaza in 2007, unless the terror-
Englewood Temple Beth Rishon, Wyckoff ist group makes historic reforms, including disarming,
Fair Lawn Jewish Center/ Temple Beth Sholom, Fair Lawn recognizing the Jewish state, and breaking off relations
with Iran.
Congregation Bnai Israel Temple Beth Tikvah, Wayne Reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas makes
Glen Rock Jewish Center Temple Emanu-El, Closter peace much harder to achieve, Netanyahu wrote
Thursday on his offices Facebook page after the deal
Jewish Community Center Fort Lee/ Temple Emanuel of North Jersey,
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Jewish Congregation of Kinnelon, Temple Emeth, Teaneck Netanyahu told top ministers on Monday that Israel
Pompton Lakes Temple Israel & Jewish Community would neither cut ties with the Palestinian Authority,
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Hamas and Fatah leaders shake hands as they sign a reconciliation deal at will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully,
Egyptian intelligence services headquarters in Cairo on October 12. more devotedly than ever before. The concert seeks to celebrate peace messengers
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the West Bank and Gaza also raises secu- humanitarian crisis in Gaza that could Proceeds from the concert will fund a scholarship to aid refugee students to pursue
rity concerns. push Hamas into another war with a degree from Seton Hall.
However, if fully implemented, rec- Israel. Egypt, which brokered the talks Tickets may be purchased online through the NJPAC box office www.njpac.org, on
r onciliation also could bring benefits between Fatah and Hamas, would likely the Seton Hall website, www.shu.edu/P4P2017, or by calling the NJPAC box office
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Reconciliation against Israel as part of the deal. Dana El Kurd, a researcher fail on its merits, the government has diplomatic rea-
FROM PAGE 31 at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, wrote sons to accommodate the process. Among the world
goods and people to move in and out of the territory. PA Monday in Foreign Affairs that the international backers of leaders celebrating the deal are two of Israels most
President Mahmoud Abbas would have to end the sanctions reconciliation seek to neutralize Hamas power by weaken- important strategic partners, Egypt and the United
he has imposed on the territory to force Hamas capitula- ing its popular support. States.
tion, including crippling electricity cuts. While El Kurd went on to argue that this would lead to Under Egyptian President Abel Fattah-el Sisi, Jeru-
At the same time, reconciliation just might force Hamas more popular discontent and violence, Israel likely would salem and Cairo have cooperated closely in recent
to moderate. According to a report last week in Haaretz, the welcome this development. years on shared regional security concerns, including
group agreed not to carry out terror attacks or fire rockets Even if Israel would prefer to see Palestinian reconciliation Hamas. At the U.N. General Assembly last month in
New York, Sisi coupled his first meeting with Netan-
yahu with a call for Palestinian unity as a step toward
peace with Israel. By opposing Sisi on reconciliation,
Israel could put this progress at risk.
When it comes to the United States, which has also
thrown its weight behind reconciliation, Netanyahu
has gone out of his way to ensure no daylight comes
between him and President Donald Trump. The prime
minister reportedly warned top ministers in February
against confronting Trump, explaining that the presi-
dents personality must be taken into account.
In many ways, the Trump administration has
rewarded Netanyahu. Washington reportedly has
asked Israel to limit settlement expansion, and set-
Trump has also taken

a position on Iran,
Israels arch-nemesis,
very much along
the lines suggested
by Netanyahu.
tler leaders have complained of slower-than-promised
building in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem. But
U.S. officials have stayed relatively quiet as Israel has
advanced such construction, including, as Netanyahu
reportedly promised, outside the settlement blocs
Israel expects to keep in any peace deal.
Trump has also taken a position on Iran, Israels
arch-nemesis, very much along the lines suggested by
Netanyahu. On Monday, Trump reiterated his vow to
pull the United States out of the Iran deal if Congress
did not tighten its restrictions on the Islamic Repub-
lics nuclear program earning praise from the prime
minister, who last month exhorted world leaders to
nix it or fix it.
Meanwhile, the U.S. ambassador to the United
Nations, Nikki Haley, has defended Israel vociferously
in the international body, and on Thursday, the State
Department announced the United States would pull
out of UNESCO over its anti-Israel bias, prompting
Israel to follow.
In return for all this and more from the United
States, Netanyahu may feel that abiding Palestinian
reconciliation is a small price to pay especially since
he may simply have to wait for the process to collapse.
The issues that have doomed numerous past attempts
remain outstanding, most notably Abbas demands
that Hamas disarm and bring its military wing under
the command of the Palestinian Authority.
Unpopular at home and under his own diplomatic
pressure, Abbas may also be playing a waiting game.
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Editorial
The persistence
keeping the faith
Return of the three-day conundrum

of hope
T H
ere is a question no one wants asked: Why That was the case this year, when Rosh Hashanah,
he stories in our paper this week stretch from is Yom Kippur only one day? Sukkot, and Shmini Atzeret fell out on Thursdays and
Bergen County to Israel, and across the religious This question that goes back all the Fridays, followed, of course, by a Shabbat.
divides, but as usual there is a theme that holds way to talmudic times, when the sages of This three-day conundrum will have an impact on
them together. Blessed Memory imposed an additional day to all the Pesach as well, because the first day of that festival will
This week, the theme seems to be the hope that we should festivals except Yom Kippur. (Yes, Yom Kippur is a fes- be a Shabbat. Food for the second seder cannot be
keep pushing for the apparently impossible, because, as The- tival, albeit with a more serious side.) heated before the end of Shabbat, and the second seder
odor Herzl told us, If you will it, it is no dream. To be sure, a very small minority of people then and itself should not begin before then. That means people
His dream, the state of Israel, seemed impossible, but the for centuries after did insist on fasting for two days. As in our area will have to wait until at least around 8:05
land was settled and the world, goaded by guilt, voted it into the 16th century halachic decisor Rabbi Moses Isser- p.m. just to start preparing for the evenings festivities,
being. Today, Israel is not only a dream but a messy, some- les, known as the Rema, explained in his gloss to Shul- much less getting the seder under way.
times difficult, sometimes inspiring, often starkly beautiful, chan Aruch Orach Chaim 624:5, there is justification That it did impose a hardship on the halachically
very real place. for [observing two days of Yom Kippur], but we should observant, whether they are Orthodox or Conservative,
But Israel was created with a basic problem. There already not observe this stringency because there exists the is evident by such comments as thank goodness thats
was an indigenous population. It was not really a land with- possibility it could be dangerous [to the fasters health]. over, which were voiced when the four-week mara-
out a people for a people without a land. Instead, it was a The justification was the extra day the sages added to thon of observances ended last Shabbat. Rather than
logical crossroads where many peoples dreams, histories, all the festivals. It was added because of the uncertainty, feeling sad that a festive observance had exited (which
and lives collided. 2,000 years ago, about when a month is how we should feel), too many people
There have been many plans, schemes, and roadmaps to actually began, coupled with the difficul- felt relief a reaction that is wholly anti-
make peace in Israel, but the realities of political division ties involved in getting the word out in thetical to traditional Jewish belief.
and hatred some of it baseless, some of it not have got- timely fashion to communities throughout Indeed, it borders on chilul Hashem,
ten in the way. the Jewish world. That is because in those defaming God, who had nothing to do
This weeks cover story, about Women Wage Peace, is days, the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem deter- with the extra day. It is compounded by
about an apolitical attempt to bring peace. We know that the mined the beginning of months based on the fact that this rabbinically added day
idea sounds unlikely, nave, harmless but silly. And maybe it witness testimony that the new moon had provides too many people with further
is. But maybe its not. Maybe the way to find peace is simply been born. evidence that traditional Judaism is out
to try to meet people you dont know and to try to under- Somewhere along the line, the Jewish of touch with the realities of modern life.
stand them. Not to assume that everyone will love you, not calendar became fixed, however, thanks Shammai That the naysayers see silliness in Juda-
to expect open-hearted admiration for your goodness, but to a complex series of calculations that Engelmayer ism is nothing new. Too often, the sages
to begin with the idea that there is something good in most tradition ascribes to the fourth-century imposed rules and then looked for ways
people, as there is in you. sage Hillel II. From then on, there was no to circumvent them. Take cooking, for
On a much smaller scale, two rabbis, one Conservative, one reason for the extra day. The sages, however, insisted example. While it is biblically permitted to cook foods
Reform, backed by a retired Reform rabbi who now belongs to on keeping it for one reason only: It was minhag avot, on a festival if it will be eaten on that festival, the sages
both their synagogues, are getting together once a year, basi- the tradition of our fathers, and should not be tam- forbade cooking on those days for the day after the fes-
cally to demystify their shuls and their practices and philoso- pered with out of respect for our parents and how they tival, unless the next day is Shabbat.
phies to each other. Over the course of a Shabbat and then on practiced Judaism. The sages made this a law. They feared that people would get the wrong idea. If
into that Friday night, they will daven, study, and eat together, For Ashkenazic Jews especially, minhag avot takes the second day of Sukkot was a Friday, as was the case
talk to each other, and think about how much they have in precedence even over minhag ha-makom (also known this year, and people were allowed to cook on that day
common, as well as how much continues to divide them. as minhag ha-medinah), the traditions of the place in for Shabbat, on which cooking is biblically forbidden,
For that matter, once a year, a Conservative and an Ortho- which you live. then next year they might cook on the second day of
dox shul in Teaneck get together to study. Theyve been Not all minhag avot survived over the millennia, for Sukkot, a Tuesday, for Wednesday, when cooking is not
doing it for a few years now. It doesnt sound like that much various reasons. The Talmud, for example, says that forbidden. So they banned cooking on the second (or
of achievement in an ideal world it shouldnt be that much rice should be a staple at the seder table. (See the Bab- last) day of a festival even if the next day is a Shabbat.
of an achievement but because we live in the real world, ylonian Talmud tractate Pesachim 114b.) Ashkenazic Having forbidden the practice (even though the sec-
it really is. Through that study, those two communities also Jews abandoned this custom 900 years ago. Interest- ond day is not a biblical observance), they had to come
have learned to be comfortable with each others commit- ingly, minhag avot now is used as the reason not to up with a way to allow cooking nonetheless, in order
ment to Jewish texts. revert to the earlier practice. not to diminish Shabbat enjoyment. So the Sages con-
Maybe this can be a trend. Normally, observing the extra day of a festival should jured up a bit of legal legerdemain known as an eruv
I know, I know. Foolish optimism. But maybe what we impose little hardship on anyone. There is one situa- tavshilin. This is done by individuals, and often by rab-
really need is clear-sighted optimism open hearts, along tion, however, in which that extra day does impose a bis for their communities.
with open ears and eyes. To try to shake clear of politics and hardship when two days turn into three. Cooking, of course, is the least of the problems
just plain look and listen.
And hope. We always can use more hope. JP Shammai Engelmayer is rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel of the Palisades in Cliffside Park.
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Deciding what adults do
W
ho doesnt love an oxymoron?
Open secret, small crowd, paper towel,
liquid gas, working vacation, virtual real-
created by three-day festivals. So many observant ity, and so many more. One of my favor- While halacha is an
Jews are involved in businesses and professions where
the extra day imposes serious hardships.
ites is adult children, because not only does it perfectly
juxtapose two diametrically opposite halves, but also
essential part of who
These days, of course, we know to the millisecond because it makes a serious point. As any of us blessed I am, and asking rabbis
when a new month begins. In many synagogues, the
time is publicly and precisely proclaimed on the pre-
with such children know only too well, each of those
two halves constantly tug at our heartstrings, pulling us
questions is something
vious Shabbat. (The new month will be born at 7:27 in opposite directions. Our adult children will always be I take seriously and
p.m. and 10 seconds on Tuesday.) Rather than invent
loopholes that lead some to mock Jewish practice, and
our children always! and parents desperately want to
protect their children. But we must also acknowledge that
do when appropriate,
is burdensome even among some of the observant, theyre adults too, and we understand that as adults they I believe that decisions
why not get rid of the extra day entirely?
Even if there were a more valid reason than we
have the right, indeed the responsibility, to make their
own important decisions.
of this nature ultimately
have been doing it this way for 2,000 years, halachah Because thats what adults do. should be in my hands.
allows dropping the day if it brings people closer to the Sure, we can and should give advice
Torah and to God. preferably when asked, and with gently, This issue came up again recently when
Maimonides, the Rambam, states this concept very very gently as our guiding principle. I drafted a health care proxy for myself. As
clearly. In Mishneh Torah Mamrim (2:4), he says of But we also need to grit our teeth and not lawyers often do, I had about five differ-
the rabbis: If they should conclude that it is neces- interfere with their decisions when we ent forms in front of me some prepared
sary to suspend a positive commandment or nullify a disagree with them even if, as is some- by law firms and others distributed by rab-
times (but only sometimes) the case, were binical organizations and I was merging
right. With decision making, we need to them into one document to meet my spe-
recognize that our childrens adult halves cific needs. Two of the rabbinical forms pro-
predominate. vided that the proxy was not only obligated
These days, of The importance of being allowed to Joseph C. to consult with a rabbi when issues of Jew-
course, we know to make our own serious decisions was
brought home to me starkly about 30 years
Kaplan ish law and custom arose, but actually was
required to comply with the rabbis deci-
the millisecond when ago, when I was, as the euphemism goes, sions. Thus, it was the rabbi, and not the
a new month begins. between jobs. I had been an in-house attorney for J. C.
Penney, and I thought that perhaps I would remain in
proxy, who would be the decision maker with respect to
life and death issues.
In many synagogues, that position until I retired. (Millennials note: It was a While halacha is an essential part of who I am, and
the time is publicly very different time.)
But man tracht und Gott lacht (man proposes and God
asking rabbis questions is something I take seriously
and do when appropriate, I believe that decisions of
and precisely disposes), and Penney decided to move its main office this nature ultimately should be in my hands, even if
proclaimed on the from New York City, where it had been based for more
than 70 years, to Plano, Texas, a relatively new suburb of
my decision is to follow the rabbis words. So in a case
where Im unable or not competent to make such deci-
previous Shabbat. Dallas. As you already know from my biographical blurb sions, it should be in the hands of a proxy who has
at the end of this column, the wonderful modern Ortho- agreed to make the decisions she thinks I would have
negative one in order to restore the people to the faith, dox Teaneck community won out over a then-desert made. My proxy document therefore also provides for
or to save many Jews from otherwise becoming lax in landscape, where bison roamed on the future location halachic consultations when necessary, but leaves the
matters [of observance], they may act as the needs of of Penneys new headquarters building. So there I was final decision, after such consultations, in the proxys
the time require. Rambam was talking about biblical 40, with three kids, yeshiva tuitions, and a mortgage hands and thus in effect in my hands.
commandments; even more so would this apply to looking for a job. Because making such life and death decisions is what
rabbinically ordained observances. It was a difficult search, and I networked with anyone I adults do.
Elsewhere (MT Sanhedrin 24:4), he pointedly adds had ever met and many I hadnt. One of the people I con- I recently read an article about decision making. One
this note of caution: In all matters, he writes, the rab- tacted, a senior partner in a major New York law firm, part of it discussed a survey where people were asked
bis acting as decisors shall act for the sake of Heaven was a friend from camp days who married one of my what their most important life decision was. While some
and not take lightly [the effect an action or ruling may sisters best friends. I explained the situation, discussed of those decisions concerned having children, commit-
have on] human dignity, for consideration of human strategy, and asked if he would keep his ears open. ting to careers, determining where to live, and the like,
dignity may require setting aside rabbinic injunctions. Shortly thereafter he called and told me he had heard of the decision most often cited was choosing a spouse.
We do not impose a second day on Yom Kippur for a an opportunity. But before giving me any details he said, And thats almost but not quite true for me as well.
practical reason health. There are also practical rea- I dont think this job is for you. Youre far too experi- Actually, the crucial decision was made on Shabbat
sons to end imposing a second day on the other festi- enced, and this position isnt on a high enough level and Nachamu in the Pioneer Hotel 52 years ago, when, as I
vals. The lone exception, to my mind, should be Rosh wouldnt use your talents or pay what youre worth. So listened to the Righteous Brothers Unchained Melody
Hashanah, which is observed as two days even in the at first I wasnt going to tell you about it. But then I real- playing on the juke box, I decided to ask a lovely young
State of Israel. ized that it should be you making the decision whether woman to dance. And five years later, after a snag or
its something youre interested in, not me. two (or three), that dance floor was transformed into a
So with the clear understanding that his telling me chuppah.
about this possibility was not an indication of his opin- But it was my initial decision the one I like to think
ion of my legal skills, he gave me the particulars. And was my very first adult decision to approach the girl in
The opinions expressed in this section are those of it turned out that he was right, for all the reasons he the tennis sweater, whom I didnt know but who some-
the authors, not necessarily those mentioned. But all these decades later I still remember how touched my soul, that changed my life.
of the newspapers editors, publishers, or other his words with warmth, and I appreciate that he treated
staffers. We welcome letters to the editor. me like an adult by allowing me to make this significant Joseph C. Kaplan, a regular contributor, has been
Send them to jstandardletters@gmail.com. life decision. living in Teaneck and practicing law in Manhattan for
Because thats what adults do. many years.

Opinion
Dont wail about the Kotel deserve it
A
vinu she-ba- the desire to see the reli-
shamayim, Rock gious lives of millions of
and Redeemer of diaspora Jews legitimated,
the People Israel: valued, and validated at our
Bless the State of Israel with its religious traditions most
promise of redemption. My con- sacred site. The worship
gregation offered these words conducted in my Conser-
of prayer and blessing on Rosh vative congregation and in
Hashanah and Yom Kippur, just countless other non-Ortho-
as we do each and every Shabbat Rabbi Joseph dox communities men
morning. We will continue offer- H. Prouser and women together is
ing these words of prayer, and we authentic and principled
will mean them sincerely, regard- and holy, notwithstanding
less of specific policy decisions and political the fact that our method of prayer is banned
posturing by the leadership of the Jewish at our peoples most cherished and histori-
state. In fact, on those occasions when the cally significant place of worship.
State of Israel and its government conduct The reaction to this broken agreement in
themselves in a manner which we in our some quarters of diaspora Jewry was swift
Conservative congregation nestled in the idyl- and harsh and hostile. Rabbi Steven Wer- John Adams Abigail Adams
lic comfort and security of Franklin Lakes, nick, the CEO of the United Synagogue of
New Jersey find objectionable or offen- Conservative Judaism, said that reneging on decision made at more or less the same correspondence as Dearest Friend.
sive, our prayers and blessings and efforts the agreement places the unity of the Jewish time to vest exclusive control over all mat- Adams wrote to his beloved about the prog-
on behalf of the Jewish State are all the more People in a very precarious place. He said: ters of conversion to Judaism in the Jewish ress of the Revolution: We cant guarantee
urgently required. We are on the edge; on the edge of very real, State in the ultra-Orthodox state-recognized success, but we can do something better.
This principle was sorely tested in many very serious, and very harmful distancing of chief rabbinate, which issued a blacklist bar- We can deserve it.
Jewish communities in recent months. Prime Israeli Jewry with diaspora Jewry. ring specific diaspora rabbis from testifying American historian David McCullough
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had negoti- Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union as to the Jewish bona fides of converts. (See points out that Adams was not entirely origi-
ated an agreement that would have created for Reform Judaism, agreed: This horse trad- the story on page 6.) Such a policy denies not nal in his sentiment. Washington used exactly
an area at the Kotel Jerusalems Western ing is going to affect the well-being, unity, and merely the legitimacy of countless rabbis, but the same line in his writings. Neither was the
Wall where men and women could wor- diversity of the Jewish people. You cannot the very Jewishness of countless converts to father of our country entirely original. Both
ship together, as we do in my congregation delegitimize the majority of American Jews, Judaism, as well as their children and their he and Adams were paraphrasing Cato, a
and as the majority of the Jewish world is then say, Can you help us out here? childrens children. 1712 play by the British writer Joseph Addi-
accustomed to doing. We do not separate Invoking the biblical precedent of Jacob The anger and hurt so evident in the wake son. Our founding fathers found deep per-
ourselves by gender, as is the venerable prac- and Esau, Rabbi Jacobs described the Prime of these Israeli policy decisions is under- sonal meaning in this play, which was based
tice of Orthodox Jews. The area abutting the Ministers reversal as selling world Jewrys standable and not entirely misplaced. In on the life of a Roman stoic whose resistance
Kotel now is divided into a mens section birthright for a bowl of lentil soup in the determining my own response to this historic to the tyranny of Julius Caesar made him an
and a womens section, with no accommo- form of coalition votes. turn of events, however, I want to be guided icon of republican government and liberty.
dation for mixed-gender prayer. There is an Hundreds of emissaries of the Jewish by something more worthy of Jewish tradi- Tis not in mortals to command success,
area farther south, adjacent to the Temple Agency signed an online letter warning of tion, more worthy of my role as a rabbi, and Addisons Cato declares. But well do more...
Mount, where egalitarian prayer is permit- irrefutable damage to our collective future. more worthy of my abiding commitment to Well deserve it.
ted, but there is not one at the Kotel, with all An American supporter of Israel the integrity of the Jewish people and to the Addison did not originate this principle,
its history, sanctity, emotional impact, and demanded a refund for $1 million dollars in well-being of the Jewish State. I may indeed which can be traced back to Aristotle. He
immediate proximity to the site of the Holy State of Israel bonds he had just purchased, find the prime ministers actions painful. I wrote: Dignity does not consist in possess-
of Holies. while others canceled meetings scheduled may indeed be inclined to vitriol. I, too, want ing honors, but in deserving them.
In June, the prime minister reneged on with the prime minister. to see the campaign the fight for religious In response to these protracted controver-
his governments agreement to provide for Avinoam Bar-Yosef, the Israeli president diversity at the Kotel attain its long-held goal. sies, I am convinced that the proper response
mixed-gender worship at Judaisms holiest of the Jewish People Policy Institute, warned But the recently concluded season of repen- for Conservative Jews in Israel and in the dias-
site, an agreement reached through pro- that the real danger in the policy reversal was tance was not about acting on base instinct. pora (together with our allies and supporters)
tracted negotiation and campaigning over not the loss of American donor dollars, but a Nor is the interminable process of repen- is neither pain nor vitriol, and certainly not
several years. The agreement was withdrawn diminution in American Jewish advocacy on tance about venting our disappointments, boycotts, nor political bully tactics.
due to demands by ultra-Orthodox political behalf of the Jewish State in matters of Ameri- nor about retaliating for perceived wrongs In the continuing quest for legitimation
parties as a condition for remaining in Prime can foreign policy and military assistance. we have suffered or pain we have endured. and validation and recognition of diverse
Minister Netanyahus governing coalition. There have been calls by some American Quite the contrary. expressions of Judaism in Israel and at the
Netanyahu reneged on his agreement ostensi- Jews to launch a measured boycott of Israel in So, as I so often do when I search for a Kotel a quest that is entirely just and proper
bly in order to keep his fragile coalition from response to this situation, adopting the meth- wise, worthy, and worldly approach to the and sacred our most important and wor-
losing its hold on a parliamentary majority. ods of Israels most intractable detractors. intersection of religious diversity and modern thy response is to deserve success, to deserve
The establishment of a mixed-gender Sallai Meridor, former Israeli ambassador statecraft, I turned to the American founding legitimation and validation and recognition.
area for worship at the Kotel in addition, to the United States and former chairman of fathers for guidance and inspiration. I found If we truly want to be accorded dignity as
of course, to the separate mens and wom- the Jewish Agency, said plainly: Mr. Prime that inspiration not in the Bill of Rights, not an authentic religious expression of Jewish
ens sections has been a cause celebre for Minister, you know that the wholeness of the in Washingtons principled motto To bigotry tradition, our most important response is
the Conservative and Reform movements, ( Jewish) people is more important than the no sanction, and not in Jeffersons Virginia to deserve that recognition by devoting our-
as well as for advocacy groups like Women wholeness of the coalition. Statute for Religious Freedom, though all of selves to the authentic expression of our tra-
of the Wall, for many years. The goal of this Charles Bronfman, the Canadian-American these documents do offer insight into the spe- dition. We cant guarantee success in either
campaign was not merely logistical. It is not billionaire-mogul-philanthropist, wrote to the cific challenges confronting the Jewish people the Kotel campaign or the conversion con-
simply to facilitate non-Orthodox worship prime minister: To my knowledge, no other this year. troversy, but we can do something better. We
at the Kotel. Nor was it merely a matter of country in the world denies any Jew based on Rather, I took counsel from a deeply can deserve it.
civil rights in a democracy, though it cer- denomination. moving, deeply affecting line in a letter As a response to these disappointing devel-
tainly was that. The pain and vitriol evident in many of from John Adams to his wife Abigail, whom opments in the Jewish State, pain and vitriol
Much more central to the campaign was these responses was compounded by the he customarily addressed in their famous are unproductive and unworthy choices.

Opinion
How do we deserve success in these matters? Addi-

sons Cato counsels us: Content thyself to be obscurely Bring on the sunshine, lots of it
A
good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway,
the post of honor is a private station. month or so ago, in Throughout history, Jews around the world have had plenty
That is to say, for our purposes, that our honor and the middle of con- of reasons to worry and complain. We have been persecuted
dignity as individual Jews, the honor and dignity of the tinued threats from for basically our entire existence. This has led to a long, proud
Conservative movement, is not a function of Israeli pub- North Korea, the history of whining. Perhaps we Jews, as Michael Wex wrote,
lic policy at the Kotel, or of where and with whom we aftermath of Hurricanes Har- really are a people who are Born to Kvetch.
may stand and worship while at the Jewish peoples vey and Irma, and the impend- But being persecuted isnt the only reason we complain.
holiest site. The post of honor is a private station. Our ing shutdown of the government We also are a superstitious lot. Jews believe showing happi-
honor and dignity as Jews is a function of how we com- because the debt ceiling had to ness and satisfaction brought the evil eye ayin harah so we
port ourselves in our everyday private lives. Content be raised, I found myself in the complain to ward off the demons in the world.
thyself to be obscurely good. check-out line at Whole Foods. Rabbi David- This is called the keinehora effect. How is business? I can-
The honor and dignity of Conservative Judaism is not The friendly staff member greeted Seth Kirshner not say its good for fear I will get the keinehora. Sam, how
a function of Israeli coalition politics and their conse- everyone with a How are you is the golf game? I have to say poor, lest I say I played well
quences. The honor and dignity of Conservative Judaism this fine day? and it all goes down the drain. So as a safeguard we pepper in
is a function of whether individual Conservative Jews and The person in front of me replied: I am fine even though the expression keinehora (the Yiddish enunciation of bli ayin
Conservative congregations, along with the leadership the world around us is falling apart! harah) to protect ourselves and our good fortune.
and halachic decisors of the Conservative movement, Now maybe it was because the sun was shining on my face Take all of this Jewish baggage of kvetching and evil eyes,
are truly committed to authentic Jewish religious obser- that day, or I had played a decent round of golf the day before, and sprinkle some news and headlines in there, and you have
vance and expression when vice prevails and impious or the Prozac was working on all cylinders, but something a people waiting for the apocalypse each day. It seems like soci-
men bear sway. caused me to blurt out: ety feeds this insatiable appetite we have developed for gloom
If you want Jews to have the right to pray at the Kotel Lady, what is wrong with you?! It is a gorgeous day outside, and doom.
as Conservative Jews are accustomed to praying, do not the sun rose in the sky this morning, you are buying organic The news at 11 p.m. teaser last night: What you are drinking
boycott or cash in your State of Israel bonds or proph- granola, and it is 3 p.m. and you still have exercise clothes on. might kill you. Find out what it is at 11.
esy Jewish disunity. If you want Jews to have the right to Why in the world are you complaining?! Change the channel to a Jewish topic and it is just as bad.
pray at the Kotel as Conservative Jews are accustomed That was not an ideal reply from a local rabbi in a grocery You will read that Jewish communities are dwindling, shuls
to praying, light Shabbos candles and then spend the store. But, sadly for this unnamed woman, she was the break- are closing, intermarriage is on the rise, and the Israel con-
following 24 hours reveling in the unique wisdom of ing point for me. I couldnt take the gloom-and-doom dirge nection is at an all-time low. Be prepared to sit shiva for the
the Sabbath day. If you want Jews to have the right to any longer. Jewish people.
pray at the Kotel as Conservative Jews are accustomed Why are we such a whiny people? Why is everything so We are part of the most advanced people in the history of
to praying, study sacred texts and then embrace the wrong and broken? humanity. We members of society have more access, wealth,
moral insights and behavioral directives articulated by Jews come by this honestly. See Sunshine page 38
those texts. If you want Jews to have the right to pray at
the Kotel as Conservative Jews are accustomed to pray-
ing, visit the sick with the principled consciousness
that doing so fulfills Gods commandments. If you want
Jews to have the right to pray at the Kotel as Conserva-
tive Jews are accustomed to praying, grapple seriously Helping kids stay calm in troubled times
T
with the mitzvot and with the spiritual and the moral
demands of Jewish tradition, whether or not you deem his year has certainly When they are faced with danger and uncertainty, children
them in keeping with the American zeitgeist. If you gotten off to a difficult dont want to feel helpless. Therefore, its important to try
want Jews to have the right to pray at the Kotel as Con- start. to give them information and context at a level that they can
servative Jews are accustomed to praying, devote your- Weve witnessed understand. Talking to your children about their worries and
self to the wellbeing of your congregational community; unprecedented hurricanes in concerns is the first step to helping them feel safe and learning
pray together, learn together, celebrate together. Share Houston, the Caribbean, and to cope with the events occurring in the news. What you talk
your joys and your sorrows with your congregation. Puerto Rico; a massacre in Las about, and how you say it, does depend on their age, but all
Spend time with your congregation. If you want Jews to Vegas; and just last week, hor- children need to be able to know that you are there listening
have the right to pray at the Kotel as Conservative Jews rific fires in California, leaving a to them and their concerns, even when they are sometimes
are accustomed to praying, deserve that right. climbing death toll and agoniz- Dr. Tani afraid to admit it.
Will Jews ever be granted the right to pray at the Kotel ing destruction in its wake. I hear Foger Kids feel more in control if they can understand what is
as Conservative Jews are accustomed to praying? As my echoes of the Unetaneh Tokef going on around them. By explaining the facts of what hap-
Conservative congregation and I are accustomed to pray- prayer, Who shall perish by pened (dispelling rumors and misinformation), and how
ing? The campaign continues. We cant guarantee suc- water and who by fire? that we sang wistfully only a few short adults prepare and respond to emergencies, children are bet-
cess, but we can do something better. We can deserve it. weeks ago, as we beseeched God to write us in the Book of Life. ter able to comprehend the situation and learn from it.
Avinu she-ba-shamayim, Rock and Redeemer of the The question demands to be asked: if were having difficulty Here are some tips and guidelines for talking to children in
People Israel: Bless the State of Israel with its promise of grappling with the enormity of these disasters that are occur- the aftermath of a tragedy or natural disaster:
redemption. ring rapidly, one after another, how then can we help our chil- Start by asking children What did you hear? Share the
The State of Israel has within it an incalculable poten- dren comprehend and feel safe in a world that seems to be known facts. Dont speculate about why it happened and dont
tial for redemption. In the coming year, may the people imploding around us? give more specific detail than necessary. Ask your child What
Israel come ever closer to realizing that potential. Often, our first instinct is to avoid talking to children about questions do you have? and How do you feel? Explain
In the new year that has begun, may we as individual difficult subjects, thinking that they are unaware or too young that all questions and feelings are OK when a tragedy like this
Jews, may we as Jewish families, and may we as a diverse to understand them. We want to believe that by avoiding the occurs, and that its normal to feel upset.
religious community heed the timeless wisdom of Aristo- topic we can shield our children from painful facts and the Remind children that the world is a good place even if there
tle and Addison, of Washington and Adams. In our rela- fears they may cause. Yet oftentimes children are already sometimes are bad people who do bad things. Share informa-
tionship to the Jewish state, in our relationship to Jewish aware of upsetting events in the world, through social media tion about how the people of Las Vegas mobilized to help
tradition, in our relationships to each other, and in our or from overhearing comments made by siblings and older bring the victims to the hospital; offering their cars and pickup
quest for redemption whether we achieve success or school friends. trucks to take the injured to get help immediately, rather than
not, my dearest friends, may we deserve it. Though it is very disturbing, it also is an opportunity to waiting for an ambulance. Being able to see how even in the
teach our children lessons about human kindness, the out- worst situations people try to help each other offers children
Joseph H. Prouser is the rabbi of Temple Emanuel of pouring of help from neighbors and first responders, their acts hope and stability in the face of turmoil. Remind children that
North Jersey in Franklin Lakes. of unity, selflessness, and caring for others. See Calm page 40

Opinion Letters
Its time to urgently speak out The Torah and divinity

Soli Fogers conclusions regarding the Torahs
against anti-Semitism in all forms divinity are problematic (Dancing with the
Torah, October 13). Despite Mr. Fogers
O
claims, the Torahs divinity is not authen-
ver the course of my Mahwahs parks, at the exclusion of those who are accused of being ticated by virtue of the transmission of the
campaign for governor, dirty, there is a problem. claim of such divinity from generations past
I have been blessed to We must stop denying that there is an overarching perception of to the present. Such a litmus test is no more
see the true wonder of anti-Semitism and discrimination currently hanging over the town. efficacious than it is to posit that the claims of
New Jersey in all its 21 counties and We all must come to terms with the fact that in this day and age, those rejecting the Torahs divinity which
565 municipalities. However, I am not perceptions are powerful and often they are interpreted as reality. have been transmitted from many more par-
only focused on improving the things Certainly, there are good people who live in Mahwah and reject ties in as many generations is confirmation
we celebrate, but also on encourag- this thinking. They need to speak out loudly. Mayor Bill Laforet has, of the Torahs human composition.
ing new ideas to remedy that which and was praised by the Record for doing so. The attempt to camouflage intellectual
needs to be fixed. Phil Murphy Intolerance doesnt care about the greater community, about who honesty with the emotional embrace of tra-
The increasing reports of anti-Sem- is disparaged, or about where it goes next, as long as it promotes a dition does not establish the Torahs divinity.
itism are front and center. No part of dangerous ideology. The questions posed by rational and scientific
our state is immune. Just a few weeks ago, a diner in Sussex County But we care, and we need to commit to stopping the scourge inquiry should not be discarded as the wob-
was defaced with swastikas and Nazi propaganda. Earlier this year, before one more Jewish community in New Jersey has to wake up bly threats of modernity. To luxuriate in the
a Jewish community center in Cherry Hill was the subject of a bomb to this ugly reality. unassailable premise of the Torahs divine
threat. And in Mahwah, discussion of an eruv has led to overheated This isnt abstract to me. As the United States ambassador to origin as the emotional triumph of genera-
anti-Semitic outbursts. Germany, I worked closely with Israels ambassador to ensure tional transmission over rational impedi-
The subject of eruvs has been settled by the courts as a mat- that future generations of German youth would reject the intol- ments is enchanting but unpersuasive. The
ter of religious freedom. But its just as clear that our public erance that once took over their nation. I have traveled to Israel attempt to wall off inquisitiveness that chal-
discourse needs to change. The Simon Wiesenthal Center has five times over the past several years, seeking ways to further lenges the Torahs divinity may well serve
attended Mahwah council meetings, repeatedly encouraging a strengthen New Jerseys ties with businesses, educational insti- to wall in a shrinking universe of adherents
more appropriate and conciliatory way forward, and we desper- tutions, and nonprofit organizations. who are bound to accept the certainty of the
ately need to find that way. If I have the privilege to serve as governor of New Jersey, it will be divine origin of the Torah as an unquestion-
The heated rhetoric during recent public meetings points to a dis- my first task to change the tone of our public discourse. For too long able tenet of faith. The certainty of this reli-
turbing undercurrent of stereotyping and unsubtle innuendo. Sadly, we have given a pass to those who speak the loudest, as opposed to gious dogma (the divinity of the Torah) is as
not all of Mahwahs residents embrace tolerance. When claims are those who speak most sensibly. It is time for a new administration insecure as is the certainty of the proofs that
made in public forums that a particular group destroys the local that puts a premium on respectful conversation, open dialogue, and upend this assumption. The inability to com-
tax base upon entry, there is a problem. When a Holocaust survi- mutual cooperation and understanding. municate openly and honestly regarding this
vor at a public meeting is heckled, and then denounced as a fraud, Let us all stand up together against all forms of hate and build the foundational premise of Judaism poses grave
there is a problem. When well-intentioned residents are disparaged bridges of tolerance we urgently need to be successful in realizing risks for the generations that follow us.
as paid actors for a Jewish money conspiracy scheme, there is our communal, religious, and collective aspirations. Jack Nelson
a problem. When there is public discussion at a council meeting of Cliffside Park
the need to give out arm bands to those who will be permitted to use Phil Murphy is the Democratic candidate for governor.
We need our guns
Dr. Lance Strates A Call to Disarm (Octo-
ber 13) discloses ignorance regarding the
actual history of the Second Amendment.
The author fails to disclose that without it,
Sunshine the Constitution would not have been rati-
from page 37
fied. The rationale was also described in
and resources than 98 percent of the world today and 99.9 per-
cent of the world in the history of its existence. So why do we
What if we were less minutes of the Continental Congress and in
letters regarding its rationale. The militia was
not appreciate it? afraid of jinxing and made up of men who already had arms. The
What if we were less afraid of jinxing and instead did more prais-
ing of the blessings bestowed on us individually, of the progress
instead did more praising of meaning was simple to those who wrote it.
The founders knew that if the populace was
we have made as a people, and of the obstacles we have hurdled the blessings bestowed on disarmed, their freedom was in peril.
together? What if we were to change from complaining and feeling
afraid to feeling blessed and appreciative?
us individually, of the Evidently, the contents of the book of Kings
is unknown. King David made use of swords,
Pessimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we only orient ourselves progress we have made as a pruning hooks, and ovens in order to eradi-
to say nothing has been gained, nothing is better, then we will feel
that racial equality is all of us spinning our wheels toward an unat-
people, and of the obstacles cate his foes. He obviously didnt follow one
of Gods commandments. Recently, cars and
tainable goal. But if we distinguish the strides we have made, we will we have hurdled together? knives were used to murder Jews and others.
move ahead with optimism and continue forward. Lets outlaw cars and knives!
Martin Seligman wrote a book called Learned Optimism, which I resent that those who uphold the ratio-
opened the gateway to a new field of positive psychology focusing the names of people who were heroes rather than villains? Imagine nale of the Second Amendment are deemed
on the benefits of an optimistic outlook on life. Seligmans research if we noticed the protectors of rights and not their violators? Imagine irrational. Guns, by themselves, are harm-
proved that optimists were generally better at overcoming misfor- if we stopped kvetching for a bit? less. Man can use them for protection or
tunes in life and gave up less easily when confronted with challenges. As we mark the end of the holiday period and the beginning of destruction. Guns kept us from being con-
Since Seligmans work, numerous psychological studies have the weeks and months ahead in 5778, we should orient ourselves quered by our adversaries in two world
been conducted illustrating that optimistic personalities are often toward the positive, recognizing our many blessings and that which wars. Man determines the use of guns and
linked with better health, longer-lasting friendships, successful mar- gives us hope. It will be more contagious than the negative and actu- other means of destruction as well as their
riages, and even career triumphs. In short, those who look on the ally can spread the sunshine to disinfect the gloom and doom that use in preservation of life. If there were no
brighter side of life seem to end up getting more sun. is infesting our world. guns, even more varied methods could be
If that is true, then perhaps some of what can help us is just turn- used in killing our fellow persons. Humans
ing that frown upside down, so to speak. Imagine if we shared as David-Seth Kirshner is senior rabbi of Temple Emanu-El of Closter, using any tool can kill!!
many happy things as bad ones? Imagine if the news spent 26 min- immediate past president of the New York Board of Rabbis, and the Shel Haas
utes inspiring and three minutes worrying. Imagine if we mentioned president of the North Jersey Board of Rabbis. Fort Lee

Opinion
Harvey Weinsteins disgrace

produces another nasty caricature
W
alking through against women who are non-Jews, like Roger Ailes or Bill this offering, it is the addi-
central Lon- OReilly, Weinstein is said to display a particularly Jewish, tion of a new caricature the
don last week, and deeply pathetic, psychosexual neurosis. Whereas the Jewy Perv to the gallery
and with a no-nonsense gentiles do their business and then carry on, of Jewish sexual delinquency
spare half hour on my hands, I Weinstein is driven by a desire to perform for his victims, by designed and maintained by
decided to pay a quick visit to committing sexual acts while they are compelled to watch. anti-Semites.
DAVID SHANKBONE
the National Gallery in Trafal- Since Freuds time, psychologists have debated why some A few weeks ago, I wrote in
gar Square. Inside, I spent most humans are aroused by exhibitionism, with some arguing this column, in the wake of the
of my time intently studying a that its origins are entirely sexual, while others counter that neo-Nazi violence in Charlot-
painting that I could not recall Ben Cohen non-sexual causes need to be taken into account. I dont tesville, about an extraordi-
having seen before: The Phi- claim to be an expert on this literature, but Id be very sur- nary outburst of sexual jeal-
losopher, a 1645 canvas by the prised if any of it links this particular sexual fetish to Jewish harvey Weinstein ousy by white supremacist
Italian painter Salvator Rosa. males specifically. Christopher Cantwell, who
Rosa depicts a stern young man with flowing black locks But none of that matters to Oppenheimer, who rests his railed against President Donald Trump for having given his
and undistinguished clothing holding a stone tablet that entire case on Philip Roths 1967 novel, Portnoys Com- daughter to a Jew, Jared Kushner. Oppenheimers portrait
bears the Latin inscription, Aut tace aut loquere meliora plaint. The pre-eminent text of delinquent Jewish sexual of Weinstein belongs firmly in this category of bigoted fan-
silentio. In English, it means, Either be silent, or say some- deviance, its a novel that many of us, myself included, tasy: but whereas for the Nazis, Jews (like blacks) are ruth-
thing better than silence. embraced during adolescence amid warnings from our less sexual exploiters of fair white women, in the universe
Like any writer who spies a good quote, I made a note of elders, largely ridiculed, that Roths creation, Alexander of Brooklyn hipsters, Jews are motivated to do the same by
this stoic and elegant maxim, resolving to use it when a suit- Portnoy, was a gift to the anti-Semites out there. a grasping, unpleasant psychic frailty.
able occasion arose. I didnt expect that to happen just five Writing as if he is the very first person to have made these I cant quite decide which stereotype is worse, but at least
days after I saw the painting, still less that I would invoke it sorts of connections, Oppenheimer provides a pedestrian Oppenheimer has now done what Cantwell will never do, by
in the context of a discussion centered on disgraced Holly- account of Portnoys kinky dalliances with women both issuing an apology for his piece. To my mind, the apology
wood producer Harvey Weinstein. real and imagined and then stretches them to Weinstein. doesnt make much difference the piece remains online,
But when a friend emailed me a link to a piece on Wein- His message is simply this: Jewish men who engage in sexual and the subsequent apology makes no mention of the old-
stein by Mark Oppenheimer, a writer for the Jewish maga- harassment do so because they are burdened with a power school anti-Semitism Oppenheimer so joyously revived
zine Tablet, the first thing that came into my head was Sal- that they cant handle, and are therefore propelled into, as but its something. The next time a prominent Jew becomes
vator Rosas maxim. This piece is an arch-example of why Oppenheimer says of Weinstein, a revenge-tinged fantasy enmeshed in a public scandal about sex (or money, for that
silence, in a philosophical sense, is sometimes necessary, of having risen above his outer-borough, bridge-and-tunnel matter), perhaps he will heed Salvator Rosas maxim by
and why excessive, ill-informed chatter steers us toward Semitic origins. It is this collision of inner weakness and keeping his mouth firmly shut. JNS.ORG
prejudice instead of reason. hunger for power that is, apparently, the Jewish element
Oppenheimers thesis, such as it is, states that Weinsteins informing Weinsteins deviance. Ben Cohen writes a weekly column on Jewish affairs and
unwanted sexual advances upon women were indicative I dont propose for a moment that this highly specula- Middle Eastern politics. His work has been published in
of in the delightful phrase coined by Tablets editors a tive, deeply silly theory is worthy of serious consideration. Commentary, the New York Post, Haaretz, the Wall Street
specifically Jewy perviness. Unlike other serial offenders But if Oppenheimer has made a singular contribution with Journal and many other publications.
Religious liberty for me but not thee
P
resident Donald Trump, but the way some of us have abandoned the principle florists who dont think they should be compelled to use their
Trumps decision to of religious liberty now that the people whose rights are in artistic talents to celebrate events like gay marriages that are
throw out the Obam- the governments crosshairs are believers with views on social contrary to their faith. Indeed, most Jews, like most Ameri-
acare contraception issues that we dont share. cans these days, think opposition to contraception absurd and
mandate as well as to largely In 1990, when the Supreme Court ruled Native Ameri- believe opponents of gay marriage are bigots.
exempt religious groups from cans could not claim constitutional protections for religious But if you can force the Little Sisters of the Poor or an evan-
non-discrimination statutes has practices that were banned by government laws, there was gelical baker to surrender their rights, there is no guarantee
drawn withering criticism from a broad, bipartisan consensus that this was an injustice. The that the time will not come when a majoritarian culture will,
most liberal Jewish organizations. result was the passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration as they have in some places in liberal Western Europe, deem
The Religious Action Center of Jonathan S. Act, which stipulated the state must not place a burden on the free exercise of Judaism as unworthy of protection.
Reform Judaism, the National Tobin the free exercise of religion absent a compelling government Even if you think you are entitled to free contraception,
Council of Jewish Women, and interest. does that newly minted right really supersede someone elses
a number of other groups are Jewish groups also understood that the RFRA protections religious liberty? The right to free exercise of religion is the
united in their dismay at the measures that will now ensure not only applied to the smoking of peyote, but could also first one listed in the Bill of Rights.
that businesses and institutions are no longer compelled to ensure that any possible future attempts to ban kosher slaugh- Arguments that allege the right to practice your religion
pay for all forms of contraception demanded by their employ- ter or circumcision would similarly run afoul of the law. But a legitimizes discrimination are also misguided. There is no
ees, including abortion-inducing drugs. In this, they probably quarter century later, now that a different religious minority comparison between allowing bakers and florists to refuse to
speak for the majority of Jews who are politically liberal and faces pressure to conform to the cultural imperatives of the take part in gay ceremonies (though not to refuse service for
deeply opposed to Trump. secular majority, they are singing a different tune. simple purchases) and Jim Crow laws. Do we think a neo-Nazi
As far as these groups, and other mainstream organiza- Most Jews dont agree with groups like the Catholic Little would have the right to compel a Jew to design placards for
tions that have taken similar positions in court briefs, are Sisters of the Poor or private businesses like the family-owned another Charlottesville march? That doesnt mean gays and
concerned, Trump is waging war on women and granting a Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, and others that success- Nazis are morally equivalent, but this should remind us that
license to discriminate against the LGBT community. But you fully sued to stop the government from forcing them to pay for governments mustnt be given the power to pick and choose
dont have to agree with Catholics, evangelical Protestants, services that offended their consciences, like contraception which faiths are valid. Freedom of religion isnt merely the
and even some Orthodox Jews about abortion, contracep- and abortion-inducing drugs, under the Obamacare mandate. right to believe as you like in private it must allow us to
tion, and gay rights to understand that the trouble here is not Nor do they sympathize with conservative Christian bakers or see liBeRTY page 40
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Minimize access to news coverage, and keep adult
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All adults are role models. Most importantly, children
will take their cues from how we appear to be handling
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MALCOLM BERKO around him. KF, you need to calm up! I long-term value funds. And passivity is Now, the Dow Jones industrial average
recommend lorazepam during the day good for stability. must rise by about 7,000 points to reach
Dear Mr. Berko: Last February, you said and a zaleplon at bedtime. Ask your doc 4) Our low-interest-rate environment 30,000. And though its reaching 30,000
the Dow Jones industrial average could for dosage amounts. And be mindful that seems likely to continue. We also have sounds like a big event, it would be just
pass 30,000 in 10 years. Considering the while you pessimists complain about the a new American entitlement I call Easy about a 35 percent increase in 10 years.
possibility of higher interest rates, dan- wind, optimists learn to adjust their sails. Credit for All Americans. Americans are For the Dow to reach 30,000 by 2028, it
gerous international situations Brexit, That said, youre as right as sunshine, borrowing with near abandon, just as they must gain just about 3 percent a year, and
Catalonia, the Kurds, North Korea, global blue skies, and daffodils. Those circum- did in the early 2000s. Americans have the that gain includes dividends. In the past
warming, the Middle East, Afghanistan, stances scare the bejabbers out of me highest credit card debt in history, and its 100 years, the Dow has an average total
the economic failure of Puerto Rico, Ven- because cumulatively, they amount to a rushing higher. annual return of over 9.4 percent 4.8
ezuela, Brazil and Argentina the huge huge hill of beans. However, a money man- 5) Institutional investors, hedge funds, percent in appreciation and 4.6 percent
costs of immigration in the U.S. and our ager Ive known for 24 years is 30,000 pos- index funds, closed-end funds, and pen- in dividends. The issues in todays Dow
huge national debt, why are you bullish? itive. He knows seven important things: sion funds whose aggressive strategies use have a combined yield of 2.7 percent, and
We are pessimistic because things are 1) The market is flooded with trillions quants, algorithms, programmed trading at that percentage (forget appreciation),
really terrible and unstable and Presi- of dollars from central bankers the world and computerized buying are now big buy- the reinvested dividends compounded
dent Donald Trump may cause World over. French, German, South American, ers on dips. This reduces volatility and acts quarterly for 11 years would place the Dow
War III. There is so much thats frighten- British, and Saudi investors and even as a cushion beneath the market. at 30,000. And such issues as Johnson &
ing. I fear for my children and grandchil- the Russians and Chinese believe that 6) An increase in home values has Johnson, Procter & Gamble, Verizon,
dren. How can you justify 30,000? My our Dow is the place to be. encouraged owners to abuse home equity Coca-Cola, IBM, 3M, Boeing, Microsoft,
wife and I think you are as crazy as a loon. 2) Certainly, trillions will be spent on loans again. Lenders are pushing these Apple, and PepsiCo have a long history
KF, Kankakee, Ill. U.S. infrastructure in the coming years. loans, and theyre selling like fresh cookies of dividend growth; their dividends have
Americans involved in rebuilding will at mall kiosks. These billions and billions more than doubled in the past 10 years. In
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Email a copy of your hotel reservation to market transparent to the user, he says.
Pruvo, and the site tracks when a price Other sites force you to rebook through
drops. Youre then given the option to their system.
cancel and rebook. Clearly, Marcipar hasnt put revenue as
the main goal at least not yet. We dedi-
BRIAN BLUM cated a year in order to learn customers
behavior, he says.
Before Itai Marcipar got married three Pruvo can do that in part because it
years ago, he researched and booked hotels is still quite small just Marcipar, Regev
online for a romantic honeymoon in the and their head of business development,
south of Spain. I was 100 percent sure I Doron Nadivi and has been totally
got the best price, he says. bootstrapped so far.
A few days later, he decided to upgrade Thats about to change.
one of the rooms hed booked. I noticed Pruvo is currently raising money through
that the exact same room Id already the Israeli equity crowdfunding platform
reserved was now 30 percent less, he says. ExitValley. We set a minimum target of
He began looking at his other reservations $100,000 and after just one week, passed
and noticed other price changes, some of that mark, Marcipar says.
them significant. ExitValley gives investors actual stock in
Marcipar rebooked the rooms at the the company. Marcipar sees that as a win-
lower prices, but as he was traveling win. We get a long-term relationship with
through Spain, he began to brainstorm: He people who invest in the company. We are
was a recent graduate from the Technion buying ambassadors to be our partners and
Israel Institute of Technology and knew to spread the message.
the ins and outs of computer program- Viral marketing on social media has
ming. Could he help other travelers avoid been key to Pruvos promotion. With just
overpaying on hotel rooms? minimal Facebook advertising, Pruvo has
The answer came a year ago when Mar- built up a dedicated customer base. Weve Establish a Donor Advised Fund with
cipar launched Pruvo, a website that auto- helped customers save over $200,000 Jewish Federation
mates the time-consuming process Marci- since we launched last year, Marcipar says.
par went through manually. You email a And weve monitored reservations worth Give stock that has gained in value to lock in your
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Pruvo isnt the only site that helps bic. There is a mobile-responsive website
travelers save money on hotel reserva- but no dedicated app yet. Pruvo hopes to
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cipar says, but has a major disadvantage. Latin America alone by 2018.
You need to give them your credit card Among other Israeli services that also
and they charge 20 percent of any sav- save travelers money include RoomsNinja
ings, he explains. (more for travel agents than end users) and
Pruvo, on the other hand, is free to the Fairfly (for business flights).
consumer. The company takes its cut from So what did Marcipar do with the savings
the booking engines with which it has affili- from his honeymoon hotel re-bookings?
ate relationships that includes Booking. We went out to a Michelin-starred restau-
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Talking about COLA in all its ups and downs

TOM MARGENAU For the first 37 years of the program, in 1972, there would be no increase this year. And here is another interesting historical
Social Security recipients didnt get annual In fact, there wouldnt have been an increase footnote about COLAs that demonstrates the
You have probably heard the government increases in their checks. They got very in the last 10 years! Why? Well, when auto- power of the senior citizen lobby in this coun-
announcement that Social Security checks sporadic benefit hikes only when Congress matic annual cost of living increases were first try. In other words, when seniors say more,
will go up next year because of the automatic deemed them necessary. But in 1972, Con- introduced, the law said that a COLA would Congress says how much more?
inflation-adjustment rules built into the law. gress decided to make automatic adjustments only be granted in any given year if inflation, The 1972 COLA law specified that Social
But how much will they go up? to Social Security checks the law. again as measured by the CPI, was 3 percent Security recipients would get an increase
Well, here are two headlines I read that And that law says the annual COLA is based or more for the prior year. Back then, infla- beginning the following year for inflation
answer the question in very different ways. on the increase in the Consumer Price Index tion was always running at way more than 3 measured in the prior year. So for example,
First, there was this one: Social Security as measured by the Department of Labor. percent per year, so no one gave that provi- when inflation was measured at 8 percent in
recipients to get largest increase in six years. Back in the 1970s, inflation was running in sion much thought. 1974, beneficiaries started getting an 8 per-
And then there was this one: Senior citizens double digits, so Social Security recipients But then in the mid-1980s, the government cent increase in their January 1975 checks.
pegged to get another miserly increase. were getting annual increases in the 10 to 14 finally got a handle on inflation, and the num- Here is the problem with that. As most of
Sounds like those headlines were reporting percent range. But for the past 10 years or bers started going down. In 1986, the CPI you know, Social Security checks are paid
two different stories, doesnt it? But they so, the rate of inflation has been at some of measured inflation at 1.3 percent. Because one month in arrears. In other words, the Jan-
werent. The article accompanying each its steadily lowest levels in history. That of that was under the 3 percent cutoff point, no uary Social Security check is paid in Febru-
headline correctly pointed out that Social course is normally good news. I dont think Social Security increase was scheduled. Well, ary. Well, seniors didnt like waiting that extra
Security beneficiaries will get a 2 percent anyone wants to return to the times when you can maybe guess what happened. Social month for their Social Security increase and
increase next year. But how you view that 2 inflation was rampant. But low inflation does Security beneficiaries went into an uproar. they demanded the law be changed. And sure
percent is obviously in the eye (and the poli- mean low annual Social Security increases. They demanded some form of compensation enough, Congress changed it. So for many
tics) of the beholder. So on the one hand, 2 percent is rather from their government leaders. Politicians years now, the law has said that you get the
Over the many years I have been writ- miserly, as one headline noted. But as the panicked. And sure enough, the requirement increase beginning with the December check
ing about Social Security, I have probably other headline pointed out, it is the highest that the CPI go up by at least 3 percent was (payable in January). So the current batch of
explained the history of the politics and poli- boost in many years. immediately rescinded and seniors got their 61 million Social Security beneficiaries will
cies associated with Social Securitys annual And here is an interesting sidelight to the 1.3 percent COLA increase, and have been get a 2 percent increase beginning with their
cost of living adjustment, or COLA, a hundred COLA history story. If we were still following getting annual increases ever since, no mat- December 2017 check paid in January 2018.
times. Well, here comes No. 101! the original Social Security COLA law passed ter how low the inflation rate is. Having said and explained all that, I will
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beneficiaries Ive talked to over the years
who think that is a good idea.
Finally, other automatic adjustments
Whats special
every year. People will tell me that their to Social Security provisions will take
rent has gone up, their grocery bills have
gone up, their utility charges have gone up
all at more than a 2 percent rate. So how
place in January. And these changes
are not based on inflation, as measured
by the CPI. Instead, they are based on
about a Jewish
can the government tell me I am only due a increases in the average national wage.
legacy gift?
2 percent increase in my Social Security? For example, the maximum amount of
And yet, many economists agree that income subject to Social Security tax
the CPI measurement used for the Social goes up from $127,200 to $128,700. And
Security COLA actually overstates inflation the amount of money a Social Security
for senior citizens. That is why one of the beneficiary under age 66 can earn with
commonly suggested long-range reform no reductions in his or her benefits
proposals for Social Security is a reduction increases to $17,040 next year, com-
in the annual COLA amount. I can count pared to $16,920 in 2017.
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Save all $1 and $5 bills. Whenever you Then, the first week in February, you must
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new personal rule. You do not spend $1 or year. Continue without fail throughout the
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Valuable lessons to learn from the crash of Better Place

The monumental failure of Israels ambitious electric-car network could pave the way to success
BRIAN BLUM who co-authored the best-selling book Start-up Nation

with Dan Senor. Start-up Nation chronicled the story of
In 2012, I bought a Renault Fluence Z.E., the 100-percent Better Place in its very first chapter. And Singer bought a car
electric car from Israeli startup Better Place, which aimed from Better Place as soon as one was available.
to build the worlds first affordable all-electric vehicle. Plan- The collapse of Better Place, Singer told me, is actually a
ning started a full decade before the recent launch of the good example of how Israelis have a tolerance for failures.
Tesla Model 3 that companys own affordable option and We dont just hide them. We get up, brush ourselves off and
made the most of the limited battery technology of the time, do the next thing.
which was lucky if it could squeeze out 85 miles of range. Venture capitalists know that 90 percent of the compa-
Instead of fast charge, Fluence Z.E. drivers would drive nies they invest in wont make it to a lucrative exit either
into one of 40 battery swap stations built around the coun- via an acquisition or an initial public offering. Better Place
try. Robots would switch out your spent battery for a fresh seemed like such an enormous failure in large part because
one in less time than it takes to fill a tank of gas. it raised so much money and expectations were so high. But Better Place headquarters in better days,
Going electric punched all the right buttons for me: It was it was still a startup. October 2011. PHOTO BY SERGE ATTAL/FLASH90
good for the environment, it would save us money, it was Another important lesson that the Better Place story
powerful and quiet, and those robotic switch stations were emphasizes: The first company to develop a new product On the contrary, the technological knowledge
just so cool. is often not the one that reaps the biggest rewards. (Think accumulated by the thousands of Israeli scientists
Better Places charismatic CEO Shai Agassi believed Bet- Betamax vs. VHS or the original Macintosh operating system and engineers who had been working on the Lavi
ter Places innovative technology could help stop climate vs. Microsoft Windows.) helped kick-start Israels satellite program (the first
change and free nations from the yoke of oil dependence. But thats how technology grows. The first iPhone Ofek satellite was launched just a year later in 1988)
His magnetic television appearances, viral TED Talk, and prompted Google to build its competing Android operating and contributed to the countrys subsequent high-
compelling boardroom presence had investors worldwide system, which pushed Apple to the next generation iPhone tech boom.
jumping in to ride shotgun. Countries from Japan to Den- and so on. As a country, were more willing to take risk,
mark to Australia signed on and the privately-held Better For electric cars, the failure of Better Place taught us that Saul Singer says. Were more willing to be entrepre-
Place raised nearly a billion dollars. customers wont tolerate having to switch batteries every neurs. Were more willing to fail because we know
Yet in a few years, it was all over. The company, buffeted 100 kilometers or so. They want batteries that have a range that, without failure, theres no success.
by internal strife, an international corporate spy scandal, equal to conventional cars and that can be recharged as Singer describes Israel as a big solution factory.
the Great Recession, and technology disruptions, went quickly as filling a tank with gasoline. (Tesla can do the for- We love to tackle big problems, particularly if they
bankrupt. mer; companies like Israels StoreDot are working on the seem impossible to solve. I would hope that we get
In the four years since Better Place went bust, the desire latter.) even better at thinking big, and that our failures will
to play the blame game is understandable. It was manage- Trade-offs are fine with easily upgradable software. With not rein in the audacity of our best entrepreneurs.
ments fault. It was the board of directors fault. The price of expensive hardware like a car not so much. Nor were the investors who had lost so much
the car was too high. The industry was consolidating around money with Better Place entirely devastated.
fast charge, not battery switch. From failure to boom Mike Granoff was one of the first to put money into
I prefer to see the glass as half full. Rather than point Heres another example of how initial failure can become a the company. He summed up the experience of rid-
fingers at what went wrong, the sorry saga of Better Place long-term boon. In the early 1980s, Israel began developing ing the electric roller coaster in a letter he sent to
reminds us of something critical about entrepreneurship in the Lavi, a fighter jet meant to compete with the powerful other investors explaining Better Places decision to
general and Israeli entrepreneurs in particular: that failure American-built F-16. When the program was shut down in liquidate in May 2013.
is far from the end of the journey. 1987, following considerable lobbying by the U.S., it didnt Israel was home to the worlds first full-service net-
Being willing to take risks is essential, says Saul Singer, spell the end to Israels defense industry. work for electric cars allowing uninterrupted travel
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onora Teplinsky, M.D., director of breast always recommended for other health
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Events of the past month have reminded us of the importance Be aware of potential dangers Locate special needs shelters designed specifically
of being prepared for natural disasters and other emergen- and connect with local resources for individuals who may require the use of electrical
cies. Preparation is particularly important for older adults Sign up to get alerts from Nixle (http://www.nixle.com) or equipment, oxygen, dialysis, or may have physical,
who are more vulnerable and disproportionately affected by through the FEMA app (www.fema.com). Turn on the radio cognitive, or medical conditions requiring assistance
disasters due to physical limitations, cognitive decline, and or television for more detailed information. from medical professionals. Caregivers can accom-
limited financial resources. The following are basic tips for Sign up with NJ Register Ready (https://www13.state.nj.us/ pany individuals to these shelters.
disaster preparedness. It is imperative to develop a plan that SpecialNeeds) and contact your police department.
includes all of the individuals caregivers, family members, If appropriate, contact your doctor for pre-admission into Prepare an emergency kit
neighbors who can help in case of an emergency. a medical facility. Three-to seven-day supply of ready-to-eat food, includ-
ing high energy foods and bars, and a can opener
Three to seven day supply of water one gallon per
person per day
First aid kit, a weeks worth of medication, and a list of
medication schedule
Toiletries and incontinence products
Flashlight and battery operated radio
Extra batteries for hearing aides and electric
wheelchair
Cash, including quarters for vending machines, or
travelers checks
Blanket for each person
Clothing that can be layered including waterproof
items
Paper and pen
Whistle to signal for help
Moist towelettes and garbage bags
Important documents, including copies of identifica-
tion, Social Security card, insurance policies, and
bank account records, stored in a waterproof, por-
table container such as a large zip-top bag
List of emergency and medical contacts and a list of
the model and serial number of medical devices
Be sure to check and rotate the supplies in the emer-
gency kit every 6 months
Protect yourself financially

Elect to get benefit payments, like Social Security,
electronically. This will eliminate the risk of stolen
checks and will insure that benefits are deposited
into accounts even if mail service is disrupted. Call
(800) 333-1795 to sign up for direct deposit of federal
benefits.
Connect during and

after the emergency
Update family members if you have to evacuate. It is
useful to have an out-of-town relative or friend who
can be the point person for communication among
family members affected by the emergency. FEMA
and the Red Cross have established websites to help
reunite family members after a disaster.
Additional resources
The tips above are just the beginning. There are
numerous online resources, including www.state.
nj.us/njoem/ and www.readynj.gov,that offer more
detailed information and suggestions. The local Office
of Emergency Management and American Red Cross
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Ena Forbes, the companys president and CEO, says that tered health insurance program (SHIP), sponsored by
while the company is only two years old, its really more the Bergen County Division of Senior Services, will be Because social isolation and loneliness pose serious
like a 17-year-old because of the 15 years of experience I held Monday, October 23, at 6 p.m. at the Jewish Home threats to peoples health, especially the elderly,
have in working with the disabled and elderly. Assisted Living, 685 Westwood Ave., River Vale. Age-Friendly Teaneck has launched a town-wide ini-
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tomized to suit each client according to their needs. or email Anette Lipman alipman@jewishhomefamily. nect them with needed support.
They also offer pet care services. This is very impor- org or Nancy Ames names@jewishhomefamily.org Many older adults in Teaneck are living alone
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To touch a speeding train ... to feel the joys of life
Richard Portugal in New Jersey. promise. They are still excited by the passage of a
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Since I was a child, I enjoyed watching trains roll by, their train, by its size and power. Although aged and no
m a car length behind as the red lights begin flash- length and power a reminder of how powerful is life. Their longer blessed with the strength of youth, they still
ing and the gates slowly lower serving as a barrier mere size and breadth, the noise, the vibration excites the acknowledge the running of the tracks and believe that
over the railroad crossing. My first reaction is annoy- senses. All that power and strength passing within feet is the horizon offers potential and possibility. Whether
ance, a subdued aggravation that my right of access exhilarating. And its all controlled, running a preordained healthy or medically challenged, they are driven to
and speed has been restricted. But then an excitement route on fixed tracks and engineered curves. Its as if you place a hand on the track and feel the vibration of life
arises. It starts as a low rumble in the distance accompa- could stand beside an erupting volcano and catch the hot with its rhythm of strength and endless opportunity.
nied by a faint tremor felt emanating from the ground. lava as softly as a snowflake. There is a certain promise that This is a train that welcomes all to board; it is a train
And then the train rumbles through the intersection. If Im a speeding train evokes. It is a promise of a future, that the that allows the human spirit to soar and maintain the
at Kinderkamack Road in Emerson, its a commuter train tracks run ahead, that the train moves inevitably into the excitement of life and challenge.
that thoughtfully stops to pick up its passengers in prog- distance, that potential and possibility are intriguingly just We all have an appointment with our last breath
ress toward the Hoboken rail terminal. If Im at Madison beyond the horizon. that too lies just beyond the fading tracks. But what
Avenue in Dumont, its a freight train hauling 150 loaded I am a personal trainer to seniors, both healthy and a journey it can still be along the tracks of life. What
freight cars heading to some depot ensconced somewhere infirm. Clients contact me because they still perceive the a ride on a train that still offers excitement, energy,
vibration and noise.
As the train passes, I marvel at its possibilities and
simultaneously question what secrets lay aboard. Who
are the passengers who contentedly sit gazing out the
windows or read a book or converse with their fellow
commuter? Or, as the 150 freight cars pass, wonder
what goodies they hold and where they are delivering
their bounty?
I have the same questions and hold the same won-
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discuss their vacation plans. These are fully mature
adults living active lives. They are not merely old and
prepared to be uncoupled from an active life. They are
vibrant people with a full history behind them and an
uncompromised future ahead. They acknowledge they
travel on preordained tracks, but welcome the journey
with still the wide-eyed wonder of youthful optimism.
They do not accept the next stop as the end of the line.
Rather, they regard the tracks running to the horizon
as opportunity and possibilities.
My clients live in the moment and that moment
promises a future. The train rumbles on the track and
takes them on a journey, not to the last stop, but to
the excitement of life on a daily basis. They watch that
powerful train pass and join its progress toward the
horizon!
So I watch the train rumble past and count the
cars or imagine the passengers within and I know my
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Dvar Torah
Noach: Rainbow connections How can something be both

a rainbow and a bow that
something that reminds us of
each other each time it appears
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shoots arrows? A symbol of in the sky. But, if we are not
hy are there so many the ground, originates on earth and ascends peace and of destruction? An careful, it can easily be used
songs about rainbows, to the heavens. Perhaps this was a sign that instrument of war but also the destructively to pierce the
and whats on the no more destruction would fall from the sky sign that marks the new begin- hearts of those we love.
other side? Rainbows toward the inhabitants of the earth. ning, the sacred embedded in This keshet extends from the
are visions, but only illusions, and rainbows We are taught that God chose something all of creation? earth to the heavens both par-
have nothing to hide. These words, made that already existed in nature to serve as the These are just some of the ties must guard our ends, pro-
famous by Kermit the Frog, run through my symbol of the covenant. Rather than creat- questions we consider this Rabbi Rachel tect this bow, and ensure that it
head each year as we read parashat Noach. ing something new, God chooses something week, when we reconnect with Steiner is used for peace. Perhaps this
The rainbow has so many meanings. At first that is already part of the natural order, some- this story of origin, this rec- Barnert Temple, is why there are so many songs
Franklin Lakes,
consideration, the rainbow represents happi- thing that cannot be removed, as a reminder reation, Gods promise to us Reform
about rainbows beautiful and
ness, harmony and peace as it decorates bed- of Gods promise to us. to remember and protect our hanging in the balance, the rain-
rooms, as children depict it in their earliest The keshet is Gods reminder about Gods brit, our relationship. Think bow requires our attention and
drawings, and as a wonder of nature when it covenant with all living things. God says: I about the people in your life that you know our awe. We must approach the rainbow, each
appears in the sky after a rainstorm. have set my bow in the clouds as a sign of our best. We know what makes them tick, what time we see it, as if it is the very first time we
These days, the rainbow also stands for the brit, of our covenant. Whenever clouds give matters most to them. We know how to calm have encountered something so magnificent.
support of those members of our community way to this bow I will remember our cove- them down when they are upset or how to Even though there are countless instances
who identify as Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans- nant. Notice that keshet, though often called a celebrate with them when they are happy. of keshet as weapon, perhaps because there
gender, and Queer (GLBTQ). We want each rainbow in this Torah portion because of what We also know that all of these intimacies so many more instances where keshet is used
person to know that they are not alone, that we call a bow in the sky, is translated literally can be used destructively if we are not care- to cause destruction and not peace, we are
our congregations are safe and sacred places just as a bow. ful. Letting someone into our lives is a blessing called to embrace the rainbow as Gods prom-
for each of us. This same rainbow reminds us This is the same bow that makes the other but also a responsibility. The stories and the ise to honor creation and the sacred power
that we still have work to do to create a world half of the couplet with the arrow, bow and secrets that we share are part of the way we of relationships. Let each of us promise never
that is truly inclusive. arrow. In our portion it is used to refer to the communicate our trust. Unfortunately they to turn something divine into something
And what about in our text? This week we rainbow, a symbol of peace, of relationship, can also be the weapons we use to hurt one destructive. And let us remember and recite
encounter the rainbow for the first time. The and the promise of the end of destruction. But another if we are angry or careless. the blessing to be said each and every time
Hebrew word for this sign is keshet, bow, and with only one exception, every other time it is Perhaps this is the reason that God chooses we see a rainbow: Blessed are You, Adonai our
it becomes the symbol that will remind God used in the Bible it is used to refer to a bow a bow for Gods own reminder of the covenant. God, Creator of all, who remembers the cov-
never again to destroy the world. The kes- that which shoots the arrow to acquire food, It comes into our life and our relationship enant, is faithful to Gods covenant, and keeps
het, rather than descending from the sky to to hurt another, or to cause destruction. with God as something beautiful and sacred, this sacred promise.
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Friday One That Persevered in
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OCTOBER 20 Shabbat in the Modern
Age, Shabbat
Lisbon port of last Elevators, Wheelchairs,
resort: NYU professor Computers, Medical
Marion Kaplan discusses and Security Needs
Lisbon, the Port of in the 21st Century:
Last Resort and the Is There Room for
Jewish Refugee Crisis Halakhic Technological
of World War II at Modification?; at 5:30,
Ramapo College in Sensory Perception:
Mahwah, 1:45 p.m. Electric Eyes, Automatic
Sponsored by Ramapos Sinks, Hotel Stays:
Gross Center for What is one to do?
Holocaust and Genocide On Sunday morning at
Studies. 505 Ramapo 8:45 a.m., he will present
Valley Road, Mahwah. A Taste of the Zomet
(201) 684-7409. Experience, an audio/
visual demonstration
Shabbat in Teaneck:
showing how Zomet
Temple Emeth hosts a
modifies technological
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equipment to meet the
dinner at 6 p.m.,
medical, security, and
followed by services
personal needs of the
and the annual Rabbi
Jewish community. The
Joshua Trachtenberg
Zomet Institute is an
Memorial lecture. Rabbi
Israeli-based nonprofit
Dr. Yossi Chajes of Haifa
organization that OCT. Eternal Flame, a project of Valley
University will discuss
connects Jewish law Chabad, presents Anti-Semitism,
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Magical Judaism at 8.
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Bigotry & Hate, a discussion and
1666 Windsor Road.
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cantor emeritus, Mark at 7:30 p.m.; doors open at 7. Signed books available
Biddelman, and its
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host Shabbat Yachad, COURTESY VALLEY CHABAD
Hebrew prayers set to
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shuls yearlong program, Community Outreach Walkathon: The founder and /CEO
Alive With Music. Team at Packanack Jewish Association of cyber-intelligence
87 Overlook Drive. Community Church, for Developmental EverCompliant, are the
Rabbi Binyamin (201) 391-0801 or www. Disabilities holds its
6:30 p.m. Turkish meal speakers. Tickets include
Zimmerman tepv.org. served. 120 Lake Drive annual walk, rain or shine, vegetarian Israeli dinner.
East, Wayne. Register, at Van Saun Park, Pavilion 275 McKinley Ave. Alyssa
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Rabbi Binyamin Saturday Communityinterfaith
dialogue.evenbrite.com.
C, 10 a.m. It includes
a carnival, activities,
Wolf, (201) 262-9898, ext.
275, awolf@ssdsbergen.
Zimmerman, chief OCTOBER 21 refreshments, and prizes. org, or www.ssdsbergen.
educator of Zomet Proceeds benefit adults
Institute, is the Community interfaith Sunday with developmental Stephanie Prezant zl org.
scholar-in-residence disabilities. J-ADD
through October 22
dialogue in Wayne: OCTOBER 22 Evening with
Rabbi Meeka Simerly provides kosher homes in
at Congregation Rinat innovators: Solomon
of Temple Beth Tikvah Bergen County to adults
Yisrael. The weekend Blood drive in Closter: Schechter Day School of
in Wayne is among with developmental and
theme is Jewish law Temple Emanu-El hosts a Bergen County invites
the panel participants intellectual disabilities.
and technology. During Closter community blood the community to the
in Unlearning fear: (201) 457-0058,
the oneg Shabbat at drive in conjunction sixth annual Israel Night,
How do we overcome events@j-addorg, or
8:45 p.m., his talk will with New Jersey Blood An Evening With Israeli
suspicion, disharmony, www.J-ADD.org.
be Bereishit and Its Services, a division Innovators, 5-7 p.m.,
and prejudice of each of New York Blood benefitting the schools
Lessons for Building others faith traditions
Society the Dream and Center, 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Stephanie Prezant zl
and cultural norms 180 Piermont Road. Israel Scholarship Fund. Gods wife?: Dr. William
Challenges of a Jewish in order to develop Dever, archaeologist
State in the Age of (201) 750-9997, Schechter parents and
mutual understanding, (800) 933-2566 or www. Israeli entrepreneurs Gil and author, will ask
Technology. He will give social tolerance and Did God Have a Wife?
three talks on Shabbat; nybloodcenter.org. Eyal, co-founder and
a future of peace? It CEO of social media Archaeology and Family
Noach and Avraham:

Calendar
Religion in Ancient and ends at Temple Beth
Gordon Tucker in 0Hessy Taft in Wayne:
Israel, at Congregation
Beth Sholom in Teaneck,
Thursday Ridgewood & River
Or, 56 Ridgewood Road.
Proceeds will benefit two Hessy Taft, an 83-year-
7 p.m. 354 Maitland Ave. OCTOBER 26 Edge: Rabbi Gordon of the late Mr. Samitts old professor, tells her
(201) 833-2620 or www. Tucker of Temple Israel passions: Temple Beth story of being a baby
cbsteaneck.org. Blood drive in Wayne: Center of White Plains Or and the Melanoma and a perfect Aryan
Temple Beth Tikvah has is scholar-in-residence Research Foundation, child on the cover of a
a blood drive, 3-8 p.m., at both Temple Israel in Nazi magazine during
Monday with the American Red Ridgewood and Temple
where he created Mark
the SPOT!, a melanoma the 1930s, when in fact
OCTOBER 23 Cross. 950 Preakness Avodat Shalom in River awareness campaign. she was Jewish. The
Ave. (800) 733-2767 or Edge on Shabbat, Mark Samitt died at 52 in talk, the Perfect Aryan
Medicare seminar in Shlomo Haviv go to redcrossblood.org. where he will talk about 2015 after a valiant fight of the Third Reich, is at
Choice, Commandment, Chabad Center of Passaic
River Vale: The Jewish Caf Europa in with melanoma. Register
and the Future of non- at www.marksamittrun. County, 7 p.m. Open to
Home Assisted Living Paramus: Caf Europa, Orthodox Judaism. At org, call (201) 664-7422. those in high school and
holds an educational a social program 7:30 p.m. he will speak older. 194 Ratzer Road.
seminar on Medicare sponsored by Jewish at Shabbat services School open house in (973) 694-6274.
facilitated by the Bergen Family & Childrens at Avodat Shalom; at Hartsdale: Schechter
County Division of Services of Northern NJ Knitting/book club in
9:30 a.m. hell be at Westchester holds an
Senior Services, 6 p.m. for Holocaust survivors, Teaneck: The sisterhood
Temple Israel; and again open house for its high
685 Westwood Ave. funded in part by the of the Jewish Center
at Avodat Shalom at school, grades nine to 12,
Anette, (201) 666-2370 Claims Conference and of Teaneck hosts
8:30 p.m.; wine and 9:30 a.m.-noon. 555 West
or Alipman@ the Jewish Federation Gibson Borelli Knitting Night, 7-8 p.m.
cheese will follow. Hartsdale Ave., Hartsdale,
jewishhomefamily.org. of Northern New Jersey, Afterward, the Leaves
Temple Israel: 475 Grove N.Y. (914) 948-8333.
meets at the JCC of Food demo in St., Ridgewood; Avodat of Faith Book Club will
Hadassah meets: Fair Englewood: www.THINK.
Paramus/Congregation Shalom: 385 Howland SchechterWestchester. discuss Jane Austens
Lawn Hadassah meets Congregation Adas
Beth Tikvah, 11:30 a.m. Ave., River Edge. org, or www. novel Mansfield Park
at the Fair Lawn Jewish Emuno of Leonias
Kosher lunch and music avodatshalom.net. schechterwestchester. with Professor Sarah
Center/Congregation fundraiser, Nosh, Sip &
by Shlomo Haviv. East org. Rindner and Rabbi Daniel
Bnai Israel to hear Schmooze, is at Modiani
304 Midland Ave. Shari Fridman. 70 Sterling
lawyer Rhonda Benjamin
discuss How to Protect Brodsky, (201) 837-9090, Kitchens in Englewood, Sunday Camp open house in Place. (201) 833-0515 or
ext. 237, or sharib@ 6-9 p.m. It includes food OCTOBER 29 jcot.org.
Your Assets, 7:30 Haledon: Camp Veritans
jfcsnnj.org. a demonstration by chef
p.m. 10-10 Norma Ave. will hold its annual fall
Gibson Borelli from the
Refreshments. Leslie, Charity walk in festival at the camp, with
In New York
School open house Food Network, savory
(201) 873-2476 or Paramus: Alzheimers activities including arts
in Paramus: Yavneh and sweet offerings,
L.Felner@att.net. New Jersey holds and crafts, hayrides, cider
Academy holds and wine and cheese.
a Walk to Fight and donuts, and camp
Tuesday
an open house,
7:30 p.m. Vivi Septimus,
For those 21 and older.
www.adasemuno.org or
Alzheimers at Bergen tours, 225 Pompton Sunday
Community College. Road, 1- 3 p.m. One day OCTOBER 22
(201) 262-8494, ext. (201) 592-1712.
OCTOBER 24 335, Vivi.Septimus@
Registration, 8:30 a.m., only registration special.
IsraAid program in walk at 10. 400 Paramus (973) 956-1220, or email
yavnehacademy. Road. (888) 280-6055 or Registrar@CampVeritans.
Challah bake org or www. Teaneck: Yotam Polizer,
in Franklin Lakes: The co-CEO of IsraAid, www.ALZNJ.org/walk. com. If you cant make
yavnehacademy.org/ the open house, call the
Jewish Womens Circle of openhouse2017RSVP. is at Congregation
the Chabad Jewish Center
Casino trip: Hadassahs office for a personalized
Beth Sholom,
Fair Lawn chapter takes a tour.
holds its Mega Challah Womens challah bake 8:15 p.m. 354 Maitland
trip to the Sands Casino
Bake, an evening of in Passaic: The Shabbos Ave. (201) 833-2620 or
inspiration, camaraderie,
Resort in Bethlehem, Camp reunion exhibit:
Project and Jewish www.cbsteaneck.org.
Pa. A bus leaves the Fair The Jewish Historical
and traditional challah Journeys partner for Lawn Jewish Center/CBI Society of North Jersey
baking, 7 p.m. There
will be a light dinner,
the Great Big Challah
Bake at Factory 220,
Friday at 9 a.m. Breakfast on holds a Summer Camp
OCTOBER 27 bus. $30 includes $20 Reunion Exhibition,
wine bar, table captains, 7:30 p.m. Doors open,
customized aprons, and
slot play money and $5 including photos and Conference focuses
6:45. 220 Passaic St. bit.ly/ toward food. Checks speakers sharing on future world:
giveaways. 375 Pulis NNJGreatBigChallahBake. payable to Hadassah. experiences from camps Yeshiva University
Ave. Reservations, Mimi,
Bring a valid ID. 10-10 including Brae Bank, presents Inaugural
(201) 560-2502, mimi@
Norma Ave. Varda, Pine Crest, Knights Day World, a conference
chabadplace.org, or www.
(201) 791-0327. Camp, Ramah, Veritans, about interdisciplinary
megachallahbake.org.
Teen Trails, New Jersey resources the YU
School open house School open house Y Camps, and Passaic/ community uses to tackle
in Paramus: Ben Porat in Teaneck: Torah Clifton Y, at the JHSNJ, four evolving spheres of
Academy of Bergen 1 p.m. Refreshments. influence on the world
Yosef holds an open
County has an open 17-10 River Road, Fair of the future: education,
house for parents of Atina Grossmann house. Breakfast Lawn. (201) 300-6590 or values, the marketplace,
prospective students,
and academic fair, JHSNNJ@gmail.com. and leadership of
7:30 p.m. East 243 Frisch
9 a.m.; program, tomorrow. On YUs Wilf
Court. (201) 845-5007,
ext. 16, ruthR@ Book club in Tenafly: 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Pnina Film in Franklin Lakes: campus, 500 West 185th
The Kaplen JCC on the Seplowitz, (201) 837-7696, Temple Emanuel of St., 9:30 a.m.-2:20 p.m.,
benporatyosef.org or
Palisades continues a ext. 607. 1650 Queen North Jersey screens featuring 20 speakers.
www.benporatyosef.org.
monthly book club with Anne Road. admissions@ the classic Yiddish film yu.edu/worldoftomorrow.
Ben Nelson, professor tabc.org or TABC.org/ The Dybbuk, 1:30 p.m.
Wednesday emeritus of English and openhouse2017. Ice cream and popcorn. SAR School open
OCTOBER 25 comparative literature 558 High Mountain Road. house: SAR High
at Fairleigh Dickinson Ellen Friedman School open house in (201) 560-0200 or www. School in Riverdale
University, 1:30 p.m. Teaneck: Maayanot tenjfl.org. holds an open house,
Networking in Hitler in the Soviet Yeshiva High School for
Season starts with 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Fair Lawn: The Jewish Union: Professors Atina Girls has an open house. Film in Orangeburg:
Everybodys Fool by 503 W. 259th St. Nancy
Business Network meets Grossmann of Cooper Breakfast/registration, The Orangetown
Richard Russo. Series Lerea or Gila Kolb,
for breakfast at the Ives Union and Ellen G. 9 a.m.; program Jewish Center screens
continues November (718) 548-2727, ext.
Architecture offices, Friedman of The College 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Dena an award-winning film,
15 with Lowland by 1576, admissions@
8:30 a.m. 14-25 Plaza of New Jersey discuss Block, (201) 833-4307, Disturbing the Peace,
Jhumpa Lahiri, and sarhighschool.org.
Road, Suite S-3-5. www. On the Run from Hitler ext. 255. 1650 Palisade and has a discussion with
December 13, with Register at www.
jbusinessnetwork.net. in the Soviet Union: A Ave. admissions@ its director/producer,
Nutshell, by Ian sarhighschool.org/
Conversation about maayanot.org or www. Stephen Apkon, 7 p.m. hsopenhouse.
McEwan. 411 E. Clinton Memoir and History,
Ave. (201) 408-1496 or maayanot.org. 8 Independence Ave.,
at Ramapo College Orangeburg, N.Y.
jccotp.org. in Mahwah, 1:45 p.m. 5K run in Washington (845) 359-5920, or
Sponsored by Ramapos Township: Temple Beth theojc.org.
Gross Center for Or holds its first annual
Holocaust and Genocide Mark Samitt USATF-
Studies. 505 Ramapo certified 5K run, rain or
Valley Road, Mahwah. shine, 9 a.m. Family-
(201) 684-7409. friendly event begins
r Calendar
Wednesday
8:30 p.m., in the Heights
Lounge on the Wilf
Jewish Singles 45+
meets at Congregation Information sessions scheduled
OCTOBER 25
Campus, 515 West
185th St. The forum is
Agudath Israel, 2:30 p.m.
Group trivia, dessert by SINAI at SAR Academy
for observant Jews to buffet, prizes. 20 SINAI at SAR will open in the fall of
Touro College career connect, brainstorm, and Academy Road. Sue,
fair: Touro students partner to build anything (973) 226-3600, ext. 145, 2018. Initially, it will serve children
and alumni in all from apps to code for or singles@agudath.org. ages 6 to 8, who have a wide range
majors and professions robots, in a 24-hour of complex learning challenges or
are invited to Touro
Colleges Career Fair in
window. This years event
focuses on giving back
Friday developmental disabilities, with
Manhattan. Participating by developing creative NOVEMBER 3 the goal of expanding slowly to
employers will interview ways to use technology serve more children each year.
for available jobs or to help the Jewish Shabbaton: Sharon Ganz There will be two informa-
internships. Registration, community. There will & Friends host the Tachlis
www.touro.edu/careerfair tion sessions. The first, on Mon-
also be a nonprofit fair. Shabbaton for Jewish
or call (718) 535-9375. www.yu.edu. singles, late 20s-30s- day, October 23 at 8 p.m., will be
40s, at Young Israel of hosted by Dan Perla and Valerie
Saturday Avenue J in Brooklyn, Altmann in Riverdale, N.Y., the
OCTOBER 28 Singles through Saturday night.
Fee includes three
second, on Thursday, November 9
Shabbat meals at the at 7 p.m., will be hosted by Bruce Sinai students celebrated Rosh
Hackathon: Yeshiva
University students
Sunday shul, Flatbush tour, Goldberger and Esther Sperber in Hashanah.
OCTOBER 29 and Saturday night Manhattan.
host their fourth annual party. 1721 Avenue J.
hackathon, beginning at SINAI currently operates six other education classroom, or even the inclu-
(646) 529-8748 or
8:30 p.m. and running Singles meet in (718) 575-3962. elementary and high schools, but this sion classrooms that SAR currently pro-
through Sunday at Caldwell: New Jersey will be Sinais first within New York vides to support children with learning
City. Their partnership with SAR will needs.
enable SINAI to serve many more fami- For information, www.sinaischools.
Judaism class offered in Hoboken lies from New York City and Westches-
ter who have children with special
org or call Aura Lurie, director, SINAI at
SAR, at (855) 328-9389, ext. 123, or email
A 24-session comprehensive introduction be taught by Rabbi Robert Scheinberg. needs that cannot be met in a regular Alurie@sinaischools.org.
to Judaism class will begin on Wednesday, Learning basic Hebrew reading is part of
November 1, at 7 p.m., at the United Syna- the course. For information, go to www.
gogue of Hoboken. Sponsored by the New
Jersey Rabbinical Assembly, the class will
introjudaismNJ.com or call Ellen Nesson
at (973) 214-4553.
Looking at the Arch of Titus
Yeshiva Universitys Center for Israel victorious Romans, for the defeated
Studies and Yeshiva University Museum Jews, and for both Christians and Jews
will host a conference on the historic has shifted. A distinguished group of
and contemporary relevance of the international scholars will discuss the
Arch of Titus on Sunday, October 29, at shifts, their meaning, and their context
the YU Museum at the Center for Jew- at the conference.
ish History, 15 West 16th St., Manhattan. The conference, The Arch of Titus
The conference, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., is from Jerusalem to Rome, and Back, is
organized and presented by the Yeshiva being held in conjunction with a Yeshiva
University Center for Israel Studies and University Museum exhibition on the
the YU Museum. structure, on view through January 14.
The Arch of Titus was built to com- For a schedule of events go to yumu-
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CHANNELS INTO BY YONI GLATT
The Frazzled Housewife
KOSHERCROSSWORDS@GMAIL.COM
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: MEDIUM
Mah what? Mah jongg!

I have written a few columns was now going to teach me,
about you know you are getting my friend/neighbor and
older when another friend/neighbor, so
For example, you know you we could play with our other
are getting older when you have neighbor, who has been play-
to take your glasses off to read ing mah jongg for almost as
(and your truly kind and lovely long as it has been around!
eye doctor tells you that he will We had a few lessons at
give you a new prescription my parents house, where
when you are ready). Banji we learned dots and bams
You know you are getting older Ganchrow and flowers. We learned
when you ask your orthopedist about doing the Charleston
if it is normal for your shoul- and exchanging pieces back
der to make cracking noises when you are and forth and across. We also learned that
doing physical therapy exercises and he says, all of the instructions are in the card that you
Sometimes that happens when you age. can buy for $8 if you see like a regular per-
You know you are getting older when they son, or for $9 you can get the jumbo card so
make a remake of a movie that you remem- you can really see what is on the card. (Yes,
ber seeing in the theater the first time it came a definite sign of getting old is having to buy
out. You know you are getting older when the bigger card.)
you find your favorite book from your child- But we were learning, and it was fun. And
hood and you could have sworn that you just my mom was having a lot of fun teaching us
read it last year and the pages are now yellow and using my grandmothers set, which she
and on the verge of disintegration bought in 1947! But we knew the next step
Ah yes, there are frequent reminders of was coming. The step where we had to go into
the aging process. the real world of mah jongg and play with real
And then there is mah jongg. people, not people who were related to us.
I first remember hearing about the game We had to use the skills that we were taught.
Across Down
mah jongg when I was little. My paternal We had to make my mom proud. Honestly
1. Rabbi Solomon bar Isaac, familiarly 1. One of many needed to print the
grandmother talked about it. She and her though, I rarely made my mom proud, so if
6. Matilda star ___ Wilson Talmud
10. Went across the Kineret, perhaps 2. Kind of sax friends played cards and other old-lady anything went terribly wrong, I was no worse
14. Sondras husband on The Cosby 3. Frozen animal games and they talked about mah jongg off than I had been before!
Show 4. Class on the Maccabean revolt a lot. I think my maternal grandmother So the game was set for the second days of
15. Parsha after Kedoshim 5. Recite, as a psalm played it as well, and according to my yom tov. We had the Queen of Mah Jongg
16. Blackfish subject 6. One of Valor or Courage
mom she played it too, but I only remem- playing with her neighbor as her partner. Then
17. This is only ___ 7. Horowitz who directed the documen-
18. Many a City of David find tary U.N. ME ber my mom playing tennis. we had my friend/neighbor, who was quickly
20. Classic Patinkin role 8. TV Friend Mah jongg, to me, was an old-person overtaken by her very lovely mother-in-law.
22. Devotion sites 9. ___ Titus game. But in the last few years, I have been Then there was me and my mother, and then
23. A Nightmare ___ Street 10. Many who made aliyah in the 90s hearing about all these women who play it. there was my friend/neighbors mother, who
25. Marvell work 11. Small, brown bird
Women who are around my age, but we will gracefully relinquished her daughter to her
26. Gal Gadot often gets them from 12. Its also spelled Akko
strangers 13. Giant of a Giant say that they are older after all, I was born mother-in-law. Most gracious indeed.
29. 120, for Moses 19. The Sacrifice of Isaac, e.g. in the 70s and some of these women were And we played. And we ate. And we
34. Small poem or bouquet 21. Some questions born in the 60s, which is a whole decade drank. And we laughed. Did we win? Did
35. Short pencils 24. Bud Seligs former org. older (I will just run with that) we remember anything my mother taught
37. Ed of Up 26. Bombards with cyber-tref
Even when I heard about these women us? I have no idea. We were having too
38. Famous partner of Paul 27. Judaism source
39. Do not fear, ___ I am with you 28. One thats never won a champion- playing mah jongg, or that they were learning much fun to notice. And even though I got
(Genesis 26:24) ship in 24-Down how to play it, I still didnt want to. Kindve the whole social aspect of the game and
40. Joke response 30. Fisher in Now You See Me like needlepoint I never had any desire to I was having a really great time hanging
42. Joes lil bro, in the Bible 31. Jerusalem hotel once called the do that either. (Of course, then I learned how out with all of these great women, I still
43. One of the Von Trapp girls LaRome
much it costs to do needlework, and I knew couldnt figure out why mah jongg is the
45. Month after Nisan 32. With Reagan: The Inside Story
47. Mouth off to author Edwin that husband #1 would not approve.) game that brought women all over the
48. Its ___, Phil (line from a Harold 33. Heaven Can Wait director Lubitsch In any event, a few months ago, I went to country (and probably the world) together.
Ramis classic) 36. Companion of Thummim visit my neighbor, who is adorable and quite I dont understand it but this also is com-
50. Lucky charm 39. Comprehend a bit older than I am. (She is probably older ing from someone who has trouble walking
52. Torah or Somayach 41. Speak to the congregation
than you are too, but we wont go into that, and chewing gum at the same time.
53. Exempt, rabbinically 44. Shaded, like some 50s cars
55. Imprints often regretted later in life 46. For sure she should just live and be well.) She men- So here is the life lesson: Hanging out with
59. China waves one 47. Activity for one going through this tioned how she misses playing mah jongg. It women can be fun! I dont have to keep my
63. Former New York mayor puzzles theme was then that I learned that mah jongg is a guard up all of the time, and if this weird tile
65. Joels talent 49. 1950 Asimov classic four-player game. Who knew? game known as mah jongg is what brings us
66. In a bit 51. Dessert that sounds like dirt
I asked another neighbor if she wanted to together, and makes me feel like I have really
67. Cookie once labeled OU-DE 54. Gaseous element #18
68. Where the Bnei Menashe hail from 55. One of 16 in a cup: Abbr. learn how to play, because then we could and truly entered middle age, then so be it.
69. Seeger who won a Grammy in 2011 56. Ahava ingredient play with the neighbor who was looking to Thank you to my new mah jongg friends.
with C Lanzbom 57. Shofar sound start playing again. We originally thought May we continue to entertain each other for
70. Ga. neighbor 58. Like the Sinai that my mother would teach my friend/ many games to come!
71. Cast out 60. Put on board, as cargo
neighbor and my friend/neighbors mom
61. Licorice-flavored liqueur of Spain
62. Yom Kippur animal would teach me. This was to avoid unneces- Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck is wondering
The solution to last weeks puzzle
is on page 71. 64. Driver in Star Wars movies sary fighting between mothers and daugh- what comes after playing mah jongg. A book
ters. (Not that I ever fight with my mother) club? Movie Night? Wednesday afternoons at
In any event, it turned out that my mother ShopRite? Bring it on!

Jewish World
This Jewish soprano in Berlin

conquers an absurdist opera piece
TOBY AXELROD
BERLIN Do it your way, and make

it provocative.
Thats what the producers of the
recent Lowlands festival in the Neth-
erlands wanted when they asked
American soprano Sara Hershkowitz
to perform Gyrgy Ligetis eight-min-
ute absurdist work, Mysteries of the
Macabre, with the North Netherlands
Symphony Orchestra.
Ligetis work anti-anti-opera,
a comedy about the apocalypse,
Hershkowitz calls it is a surreal piece
that pokes fun at despots and their
excesses. Other versions on YouTube
show the coloraturas who perform
her character, the chief of the secret
police, wearing military fatigues,
leather, and fishnet stockings or a Brit-
ney Spears-style schoolgirl outfit.
So what was Hershkowitz to do?
I would sing naked if there were
an artistic justification, said Hersh-
kowitz, a Los Angeles native who now
lives in Berlin. Im not in favor of
gratuitous nudity. Its artistically lazy,
and showing flesh no longer has the
power to shock. So I decided to do
it as Donald.
Hershkowitz begins as a clownlike
Trump, with a paunch, a suit, and
bright orange makeup. She takes off
the suit to reveal a baby costume. The
infant Trump, complete with bottle, Sara Hershkowitz said the crowd of 15,000 at her Netherlands performance was screaming like I was Beyonc every time I
has a meltdown, she says. Beneath sang above a B natural. THOMAS JAHN
the baby outfit is a stars-and-stripes

swimsuit with a Miss America sash. from which Mysteries was adapted. she said, but Im still glad I did it. I like On the downside, there is an occasional
Her performance at Lowlands a music And there is a long, glorious tradition of being able to choose my projects. awkwardness in conversations when
and performance arts festival in which Jews using satire and theater to do so. Striking out on her own seems to be an non-Jews find out shes Jewish.
the orchestra shared a bill with the likes She describes herself as very Jewishly inherited trait. Her great-grandmother, I am always surprised when people
of The XX and Iggy Pop brought down identified. Raised by Conservative Jewish Sarah Greenberg, for whom she was dont [figure that out] with my name.
the house. Musing over the experience in parents who lived in Israel before settling named, came to America from Belarus Sara is very familiar to Germans, she said,
an email to friends, Hershkowitz said she in California in the 1960s, Hershkowitz with nothing at the age of 14. She spoke no because Nazi racial laws forced Jewish
was amazed to see 15,000 millennials lis- said she had no trouble picking up and English. She had no contacts. women to add the name to their passports.
ten rapt, with pure joy and open hearts to moving to Germany about 10 years ago, I feel like shes with me a lot we both Yet confronting uncomfortable truths is
classical music ... the whole lot of them going from a thriving Jewish community left our lives. OK, I was 23 and she was merely a part of Hershkowitzs job. Take
screaming like I was Beyonc every time I to one still recovering from the Holocaust. 14. And I came on an airplane and had her recent performance at Lowlands.
sang above a B natural. Which was totally I had the name of a voice teacher on a chicken piccata and cranberry juice for Im not trying to give a message, or
disorienting, but lovely for my ego. piece of paper, and that was it, she said of lunch. But I think a lot about how we both pretend I have answers about what to do
Hershkowitz, who prefers not to give her her move. It was terrifying and also the left everything we know to create a life out about the hot steaming mess that is our
age, was glad to explain her inspiration. best decision I ever made. of nothing. president, she said. But my job is to hold
I want to ignite a conversation about Why? Today, thanks to Germanys subsidies up a mirror. To dazzle. To illuminate.
what the relationship should be between Germany is the center of the opera for artists and Berlins relative afford- Hershkowitz also performed Myster-
classical music and politics, she said. world, she said. ability, Hershkowitz says she is able to ies of the Macabre with the North Neth-
There tends to be this belief in my field Hershkowitz started out doing small take risks here. The creative life has dig- erlands Symphony Orchestra at the Lawei
that classical music is holy, and that our gigs, and in 2007 she was appointed as nity here. Theater in Groningen.
job as musicians is to transcend the sch- principal artist at the Opera Bremen. Besides, she says, Berlin, with its three The opera world can be a bit insulated;
mutz. And I agree that is often our job. But She has performed at the Hamburger opera houses, is a dream city for artists. its often perceived as being not relevant to
not always. Staatsoper, the New Israeli Opera, and What about for Jews? On the positive the world today, she said. But if you only
Sometimes, particularly with a piece as the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, among side, Hershkowitz says she has encoun- make pretty music and dont also stand
radical as Le Grand Macabre, there is the other venues. tered virtually no overt anti-Semitism in up for what you believe when great injus-
space to stand up for what we believe in In 2012 she left Bremen, leapt into this liberal city of nearly 4 million, whose tice is being done, you would be on the
and to connect it to our times, she added, nothing and started freelancing. Jewish population is estimated at about wrong side of history.
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FROM PAGE 9
been reaching out to her for about six

years, Dr. Cohen said. Only now, when
she is spending more time back in the
States, have we been able to get her. Shes
had enormous accomplishments, and the
museum won another award in Slovenia
last week.
Weve developed a narrative arc for the
lectures, Dr. Cohen continued. Dr. Kirshen-
blatt-Gimblett will send photos that we will
M. STAROWIEYSKA, D. GOLIK/POLIN MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS

laminate and put on easels around the room
for the Shabbat talks. We can then keep them
for educational purposes. Dr. Cohen noted
that Teanecks Temple Emeth is co-sponsor-
ing one of the lectures. She said she is par-
ticularly pleased because its a way to build
a partnership and relationship. She noted
also that Beth Sholoms Buchman Visual
Arts public lecture, usually scheduled in the
spring, has been moved up to coincide with
the scholar-in-residence program.
Dr. Kirshenblatt-Gimblett was honored for
lifetime achievement by the Foundation for
Jewish Culture and received honorary doc-
torates from the Jewish Theological Semi-
nary of America and the University of Haifa.
She received the 2015 Marshall Sklare Award
for her contribution to the social scientific
study of Jewry and was decorated with the
Officers Cross of the Order of Merit of the
Republic of Poland for her contribution to This brightly colored exhibit once was part of a Polish synagogue.
the Polin Museum. She recently was elected
to the American Academy of Arts and Sci- YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the Coun- Museum Vienna, the Jewish Museum Berlin, in Moscow. She also advises on museum and
ences and serves on advisory boards for the cil of American Jewish Museums, the Jewish and the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center exhibition projects in Lithuania and Israel.
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Innovation
FROM PAGE 13 Israeli doctor to lead global medical organization
Dr. Leonid Eidelman, chair of the Israeli Medical Asso- medical organizations from international bodies,
experience new things, Ms. Herrmann continued. Weve never
ciation, has been chosen to be the next president of the appointment of a doctor from the Jewish state
done a trip with federation before, and well see if this is something
the World Medical Association. to one of the top positions in the medical world
parents are interested in, or if they know other families in their net-
Medical association leaders from around the with a major influence on the most important
work who may be interested.
world, representing more than 9 million doctors, decisions regarding the behavior of doctors is
The federation will offer $1,000 subsidies for each participant. We
elected him at the organizations annual convention seen as carrying considerable significance.
were fortunate to be able to find some financial subsidies for this because
in Chicago last weekend. Eidelman is a prominent authority on medical eth-
the staffing needs changed the economic model for doing a trip of this
Eidelman, who ran against Dr. Heikki Palve of Fin- ics in Israel. He has been president of the IMA since
nature, and we did not want to let finances be a barrier, Mr. Shames said.
land, won two-thirds of the final vote, with 98 back- 2009, and he is a professor of anesthesiology and
We decided that if we had enough participants we would just do it.
ing his candidacy and 43 supporting Palve. intensive care medicine at Tel Aviv Universitys Sack-
Our role is to match innovation with needs and create a stronger Jew-
Eidelman, 65, will succeed Indias Dr. Ketan Desai ler Faculty of Medicine. He immigrated to Israel from
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As Israel faces repeated calls to expel Israeli
The itinerary includes some of Mr. Nieporents favorite sites the Kotel
(Western Wall) in Jerusalem, Masada, and the Dead Sea as well as sailing
on the Mediterranean, staying on a kibbutz, milking cows in the Galilee, High-level Israeli business delegation to visit Cuba
hiking, jeeping, bird watching, touring Tel Aviv and Jaffa, visiting the Naha- Israel has reportedly granted approval to a group just two weeks after Israels Minister of Culture
riya Fire Station, and even a volunteering opportunity at a home for adults of top Israeli business leaders to visit Cuba and Sport, Miri Regev, made a private visit to Cuba.
with special needs in the Western Galilee. which has no diplomatic ties with the Jewish state Regevs trip marked the first such visit by a sit-
Participants also are to meet with clients of Effie, a nonprofit group that to establish trade relations with the Caribbean ting Israeli minister to Havana since 1973, accord-
offers services to families of Israelis with Asperger Syndrome. nations government-owned corporations. ing to senior Israeli officials. The minister pur-
Amy Nieporent of Tenafly is excited about the opportunities the trip The Israeli delegation, organized by the Israel- portedly did not conduct any official meetings
presents for her son, who lives independently in housing run by the Latin American Chamber of Commerce, is slated during her stay.
National Institute for People with Disabilities and regularly scans the Jew- to arrive in Havana in early December, The Times While the communist regime of Fidel Castro ini-
ish Standard to find opportunities for community volunteering. of Israel reported. tially had a warm relationship with Israel shortly
Matthew is our resident Zionist, she said. Hes always had an affin- The delegation is comprised of about 20 top after the Cuban Revolution in 1959, Cuba unilater-
ity for everything Jewish and he really wanted to go back to Israel again. I executives from the fields of agriculture, renew- ally cut ties with the Jewish state in 1973 as Castro
hope that through this federation trip he will expand his friendships with able energy, water, food production, pharmaceu- sought to increase relations with third-world coun-
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